Listening Quotes

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.

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 was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

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.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

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.

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.