Listening Quotes

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

I really like listening to music in my car.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

All of my style came from listening to records.