Listen Quotes

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

I listen to gospel music.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.