Quotes About Listening

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

As for other radio, I dip in and out of various channels depending on my mood.

'Lucky Day' is what I would call the Shaggy roller-coaster ride. It takes you to different moods. I listen to music in moods.

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.

Our country needs more people who listen, think for themselves, and treat each other with respect.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Podcast listening, much like radio listening, is largely a question of habit. And the most powerful habits are the ones that fit into our daily routine.

I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

I'm a great listener - I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never been a big problem for me, but motivation can be a bit difficult sometimes.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

The way the question is posed by many in the media and in politics, you would think our intelligence agencies were listening in on you talking on the phone to your aunt Mabel. Be serious! There are more than a quarter of a billion people in the United States. Intelligence agencies have neither the manpower, the time, the money, nor the interest to listen in on you and your aunt Mabel.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

Also, he always stopped before the music and piano store. It was a splendid store. And in the window was a small white dog upon his haunches, with head cocked gravely to one side, a small white dog that never moved, that never barked, that listened attentively at the flaring funnel of a horn to hear His Master's Voice -a horn forever silent, and a voice that never spoke.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

The man I meet is seldom so instructive as the silence which he breaks

Yo creo que la mente se puede profanar permanentemente con el hábito de escuchar cosas triviales, de modo que todos nuestros pensamientos se teñirán de trivialidad.