Hearing Quotes

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of schooling].

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

Love is hearing my son laugh.

WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald trump], we look forward to hearing you articulate your policies and your positions, as well as your visions and your values.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.

You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.