I Am Listening Quotes

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn’t listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

I love listening to classical music.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

We'd like to think our consumers are listening. But in reality, the milder weather the last few days probably has a lot to do with it.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

We have to start listening to nature now.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing.

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

You have to learn that people are always listening.

I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.

Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.

The formulation of a public relations strategy properly begins with listening, not talking.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

All of my style came from listening to records.

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.