Listen Quotes

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.