Listening Quotes - Page 14

I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

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.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

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.

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

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

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

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

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

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.

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.

when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

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