Listen Quotes

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

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.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

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.

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.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.