Listen Quotes

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.