I Am Listening Quotes

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

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

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.