Listened Quotes

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

I never listened to country music growing up.

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

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.

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.

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 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.