Listening Quotes

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.