Quotes About Listening

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it, speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something.

Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on the potential negatives, not least of which is that idiots can more easily listen to your favourite music.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

The interview is not over when the meeting is over. Never forget that.

I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.

I find so much new music I didn't know about on my Sonos.

I am always listening to new music and reading about music.

When you listen with memory, you have an old agenda, and when you listen with desire, you have a new one. You can't listen to the other person if your agenda is overtaking you.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

When you're a co-host, you've got to consider what the other person is saying and take the next step and get the laugh or get to the end of the story. You've got to make it happen and then move on to the next story.

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times they listen to it, or anything like that.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going to have lost your impact and the audience is going to hate you for not allowing anyone to say anything.