I Am Listening Quotes

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.

For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.

I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.