I Am Listening Quotes

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

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

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

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.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

I never listen to music when I write.

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 haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.