Listen Quotes

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

I listen to kids play a lot.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

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.