Listen Quotes

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

Know or listen to those who know.

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Listen, we're going to have to fight for every vote.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

They seem not to listen to what I have to say, so I'm going to quit.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.