Listen Quotes

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

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

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content.