Best Listening Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Moments Listening Band Dave Matthew

Author:Nancy McKeon

“I really like listening to music in my car.”

Car Listening Listening To Music

Author:Aaron Neville

“I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.”

Stuff Sound Listening Hollies

Author:Graham Nash

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.”

Way Trying Bits Consciousness Enemy Listening Hip Hop Hips Contradiction Hops Diverse Exploring Realised Sampling Public Enemies Hip Hop Music

Author:Chris Ofili

“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

People Knows Trying Too Much Listening Grew Grew Up Roots Punk Emphasis

Author:Will Oldham

“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.”

Records Listening Singing Listening To Music Participating Music Making

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.”

Littles Listening Little Time New Music

Author:Gary Lucas

“Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.”

Sometimes Song Force Listening Just Listen

Author:Greg Laswell

“What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.”

People Way Play Written Humility Listening Relate

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.”

Country Song Class Teaching Listening Grew Dad Grew Up Guitar My Dad Classic Keith Playing Guitar Haggard

Author:Jake Owen

“On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.”

Easy Listening Jazz Radio Stations

Author:Patti Page

“It's about listening first, then selling.”

Firsts Listening Selling

Book:Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

Source: Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

“My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.”

Stuff Listening Miles

Author:Robert Quine

“Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

Acting Listening Harder Hardest

Author:Brett Ratner

“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.”

Hard Earth Powerful Listening Music Is Angry Most Powerful Listening To Music

Author:Jerry Reed

“Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.”

Men Want Different Listening Every Man

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.”

Thinking Art Listening Art Is

Author:Kiki Smith

“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.”

World Art Mother Father Listening Singing Our Family Spokes Listening To Music

Author:Kiki Smith

“I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.”

Stuff Parent Listening Grew Grew Up Abba

Author:Tammin Sursok

“The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.”

Feels Bits Listening Stones Jewels Johnson Harper Instrumentation Dido

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Thinking Littles Matter Culture Reading Environment Listening

Author:David Sylvian

“I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.”

People Writing Wanted Song Causes Listening Musician

Author:Emeli Sande

“I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.”

Different Artist Listening Franklin

Author:Jonny Lang

“I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.”

Wall Listening Grateful My Sister Exposure

Author:J.K. Simmons

“I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.”

Teacher Brother Listening Bills Good Teacher Stanley Bluegrass

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.”

Years Remember Listening My Friends Toronto Cubes

Author:Scott Speedman

“I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.”

Way Joy Dark Listening Taste Cures Division Dreary Joy Division

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“I grew up listening to English music.”

Listening Grew Grew Up English Music

Author:Ryan Tedder

“I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.”

People Thinking Way Long Different House Knowing Listening Grew Type Industry Grew Up Educated Long Way Eloquent Eclectic Different Music

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.”

Thinking Writing Art Facts Artist Song Interest Natural Listening Grew Kings Grew Up Inspired Guitar Songwriting Writing Songs Playing Guitar

Author:Kate Voegele

“John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!”

Knows Listening Blow Coltrane

Author:Alan Vega

“I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.”

Men Want Feels Mean Soul Use Together Heard Listening Jazz Guitar Hip Hop Hips Hops New Music Hendrix Fuse Radiohead

Author:Will Ferrell

“Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.”

Listening Twins

Author:Ralph Lawson

“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.”

People Way Hours Practice Meditation Buddhism Listening Technique Sunset Formal Listening To Music Athletics Participating Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.”

Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

“The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.”

Understanding Prayer Silence Listening Empathy Listening To God

Book:Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

Source: Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

“Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!”

Inspirational Important Inspiration Growth Positive Listening Personal Growth Careful Self Motivation Affirmation Middle School Self Talk Careful What You Say

Author:John Assaraf

“I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.”

Moments Kids Five Four Listening Grew Grew Up Singing Piano Conception Listening To Music

Author:K. D. Lang

“Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.”

Wells Listening Soundtracks

Author:Mike Lowry

“I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.”

Feels Player Listening

Author:Rebecca Lobo

“The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.”

Way Problem One Thing Changed Listening Never Change Delivering

Author:Doug Morris

“At XL, we tackle risk like no one else, analyzing deeper and listening closely to our clients to create solutions that unleash the world's capacity to advance. By helping our clients unlock their full potential, we fulfill our own. Our new brand demonstrates this unique outlook and the commitment and value we bring to clients.”

World Helping Values Risk Listening Unique Solutions Commitment Capacity Deeper Brands Clients Outlook Analyzing Full Potential

Author:Mike McGavick

“I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.”

Years Turns Fall Car Listening Radio Reactions Turn-on Allergic Allergic Reactions

Author:Aimee Mann

“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.”

People Wanted School Jobs Listening Awful

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.”

Knows Men Kind Country Kids Guy Listening Grew Grew Up Pops Crossings Crossing Over R Kelly

Author:Austin Mahone

“I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.”

Sometimes Whole Song Grows Missing Listening Albums Cds Lame

Author:Carolyn Mackler

“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.”

Home Enjoy Listening Opera Just Listen

Author:Sam Waterston

“I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.”

School Remember Emotion Listening High School Winter Overwhelmed Vivaldi

Author:Sara Zarr

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