Listening Quotes

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

I just love listening to the laughter.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.