Listen Quotes

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.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.