Listened Quotes

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

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.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?