Quotes About Listening

May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

Didn't we just talk about this the other night?" Denise sighed with exasperation. "Yeah, we talked. Or rather, I talked. But you didn't say much at all." "Sure I did." "No, you didn't. But then, you never have. You just talk about surface things, never the things that are really bothering you.

By then, after all, she understood the nature of romance, and knew it had little to do with trying to create a fantasy. Real romance was spontaneous, unpredictable, and could be as simple as listening to a man read a love letter found in a lonely mailbox on a stormy September afternoon.

When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was the voice of God, the image of God. When I went to start making docs, I quickly turned the megaphone to my ear not to my mouth. It's more about funneling in the words and listening as doc filmmaker.

I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

I'm not political, but I am policy-oriented and I am interested in the right moves for our economy, for our nation; but I'm also always willing to listen.

I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience.

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.

Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that . With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.