I Am Listening Quotes

Donald Trump has been saying that I think for as long as I've been listening to him of late, and that's what he's going to do.

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening.

Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

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

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

Never stop listening to your audience.

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.

If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.

Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.

Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.