Listen Quotes

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

We need to listen to our experiences.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.