I Am Listening Quotes

So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me].

I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

I grew up listening to English music.

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

Listening can heal wounds.

Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

For me, personally, Im usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

Listen first and never stop listening.

Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.