Quotes About Listening

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.

[My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

I think that the people in Indiana want to see more jobs, more opportunity. And they want to make sure that Washington listens to them.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.