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Listening Quotes

The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.

Julian Treasure

Time Listening Trouble Noise Us

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

People Listening Acting Secret Big

I could come home, and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do, really, and doing the radio show ensures that I'll be sitting there listening.

Home Me Listening Night Rest Doing

I felt like an outsider, so listening to a bunch of outsiders' music like Bjork and Patti Smith made me feel better. But at the same time, I didn't have anyone singing specifically 100% about things I could relate to.

Music Time Me Listening Singing

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

Listening Story Think Watching Here

I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.

Parents Listening Ignore Wonder Up

What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

Good Listening Strong Enjoy Acting

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

Music Listening World Blues Jazz

My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.

Brother Listening Thought You I Can

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

Love Music Training Listening Little

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

Day Yourself People Me Listening Up

I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary.

Sharon Van Etten

People Listening Think Trying You

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

Alan Dean Foster

Music Listening Basketball Year Play

Listening is an art.

Frances Hesselbein

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Music Joy Listening Think Musicians

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

Music Religion Listening Bad Hearing

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

Love People Listening Laugh Like

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

Listening Song Key You Changes Pass

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Music Age Listening Early Old Flu

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Truth Support Listening Way Own

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Listening Person Being Able Changed

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Music Listening You Important More

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

Yourself Child Listening Place New

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Best Listening Others Ears Persuade

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