Listening Quotes

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Never stop listening to your audience.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I really like listening to music in my car.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.