Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

Mel White

We're listening to each other. I think, down the long road, we're going to be reconciled, and it starts today,

Andrew Mason

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Andrea Bocelli

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

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

Alex Borstein

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.

Abbas Kiarostami

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

Steve Hackett

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

Jane Asher

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Janine Benyus

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Jane Yolen

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world...

Maria Garcia

I am thrilled for them listening to our concern. It's what we wanted from them. We just want to live here peacefully in the United States which we love very much.

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Celine Dion

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

Carter Burwell

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alain de Botton

Not everyone is worth listening to.

Branford Marsalis

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Artie Shaw

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

Eckhart Tolle

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Eckhart Tolle

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Courtney Barnett

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

David Copperfield

Never stop listening to your audience.

Don Herold

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

Doug Morris

The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

Donald Faison

You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

Cory Doctorow

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

Amos Lee

I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.

Anna Deavere Smith

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Andrew Flintoff

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

Alice Sebold

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Amy Winehouse

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.