I Am Listening Quotes
The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.
I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.
I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.
I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.
I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.
if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'
I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.
You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.
People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.
I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.
Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.
Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.