Listen Quotes

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

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.

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

I never listen to music when I write.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.