Listen Quotes

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

I don't really listen to music.

The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

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.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.