Listening Quotes

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

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.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

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