Listening Quotes

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

Listening is more important than talking.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and not eat the fries on the way home.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."

(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.