Listening Quotes

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

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

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.

All of my style came from listening to records.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

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

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.