Listening Quotes - Page 6

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

Who said I was wise? I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can’t sing,I can always continue listening to it.

I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.