Listen Quotes

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.