Listening Quotes - Page 44

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

Especially when I first came up here to New York, everybody wanted to hook me up with this guy who's Prince's sound engineer. Almost everybody wanted me to hook up with him and go to L.A. and do all that just because that's the route Prince took. And for a while I was listening to all of that. "Yeah, if it's good enough for Prince, it should be good enough for me." But I mean, that's not the case, really. Prince is a different person than I am. You just got to find the right person for you, whoever you click with.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

I wouldn't compare my sound on the mixtape to anything, but my influences are like - the minimal amount of hip-hop that I actually do know - because I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop like that. No one really put me on to hip-hop like that... My dad's from Jamaica and my mom is from Barbados, so that's really the stuff I grew up listening to.

I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all around me. It can drive my partner bonkers a little bit. But it's about being able to tell a lot of very different stories as well as you can and I do genuinely love what I do.

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.