Quotes About Listening

I listen a lot to Howard Stern. Not the show, the interviews. He has a separate podcast of just interviews. They're fantastic.

I have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it's Howard Stern, of course.

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone's attention.

If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

To be a good artist, you need to be sensitive to the world around you, you need to be curious, you need to listen, you need to be willing to learn from people. A lot of great art is about people being moved by something or seeing something that stops them dead.

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.