Listened Quotes

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.