Listening Quotes

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

All of my style came from listening to records.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.