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Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'”

Home Song Listening Jason Beyonce New Songs

Author:Jackie Evancho

“Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.”

Next Fans Wind Listening Sitting Coaches

Author:Pat Summitt

“I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.”

Artist Creativity Listening Admire Artistry Hendrix

Author:LL Cool J

“Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.”

Matter Moments Found Pieces Tvs Listening Scripture Offering Evangelists

Author:Amy Ray

“Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.”

Looks Two Life Is Night Stars Answers Cry Listening Cold Eternity Wings Strive Lips Vain Height Echoes Barren Voiceless Wailing

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.”

Records Listening Band Pops Teens Classical Music

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.”

Guy Girl Missing Listening Missing Out

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.”

Song Culture Names Television Taught Listening Standing Pops Titles Relief Breasts Plates Pop Song Future Love

Author:David Byrne

“Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.”

Moments Listening Coffee Spots Cups Tea Coffee Cup

Author:Dan Rather

“My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.”

Way Believe Said Trouble Love You Listening Kissing Fairs Treated Hug His Love Grandpa Say I Love You Doing Right

Author:Bill Cosby

“Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?”

Today Listening Conversation Restaurants

Author:Demetri Martin

“Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.”

Listening Hung Surgeons Clarinet Goodman Scalpels

Author:Artie Shaw

“I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.”

Knows Trying Mean I Can Play Funny Sound Black White Records Player Listening Let Me Tone Trumpets Just Listen

Author:Miles Davis

“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.”

Years Soul Kids Used Enjoy Sound White Company Records Rocks Listening Band Prejudice Radio Singers Labels Brown Crap Record Companies

Author:Miles Davis

“Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.”

Stories Listening

Author:Tim Allen

“Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.”

Want Real Fall Girl Break Listening Giants Antiques Slow Motion Hourglass Evanescence

Author:Dane Cook

“I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.”

People Feelings Energy Listening Conversation Clubs Tongue Comedian Tone Cheeks Therapists Yelling

Author:Dane Cook

“Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.”

Sound Listening Ocean

Author:LaToya Jackson

“Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.”

Ifs Knows Listening Equal Harder Affection Tape

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.”

Shows America Courses Games Listening Laughter Speed Video Smoking Pot Bus Metals Brian Mr Show

Author:David Cross

“If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Believe Moments Asks I Believe Audience Listening Combination Ask Me Music Making

Author:Michala Petri

“Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.”

Pieces Minutes Listening Function Narrative Chamber Classical Music Enrichment

Author:James Ellroy

“I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.”

Thinking I Can Reason Names Stuff Difficult Quality Modern Listening Grew Grew Up Composer Listening To Music Quality Time

Author:A. R. Rahman

“As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.”

Feels Kids Speak Voice Listening Happenings Communicate Filmmaker Bullied

Author:Lee Hirsch

“I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.”

People Thinking Listening Beats Hip Hop Hips Hops Rhyme

Author:Raekwon

“I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.”

Trying Sides Listening Grew Grew Up Track Hip Hop Hips Hops Bowls Both Sides Spectrum Forks Tapping

Author:Lotic

“Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.”

I Can Done Christian Christianity Listening Grew Messages Grew Up Adults Impact Substance Bullshit Christian Music

Author:J Tillman

“My buddy Tom... he'd been chasing a girl for two years, and he got her the old-fashioned way - dates and listening.”

Way Years Two Girl Listening Two Years Toms Old Fashioned Chasing Buddy Chasing A Girl

Author:Greg Behrendt

“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.”

“The other day my twelve-year-old says to me, I don't feel like I'm with you right now. You're in the car with me, you're checking your e-mail, you're not listening to me, I don't feel like I'm with you. And I say, You know what? That was your mother's gripe, too. And she was right. And you're also correct. When you cop to something, you get to the next level. In this case, the next level is: I just learned something from my twelve-year-old.”

Knows Feels Years Mother Next Levels Cases Car Listening Right Now Mail Twelve Cop Next Level

Author:Bob Saget

“Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.”

Jobs Talking Listening

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.”

Want Energy Silence Audience Laughing Listening Filled Bored Silence Is Pins

Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.”

Situation Listening Band Musician Picks Instinct Miles

Author:Branford Marsalis

“I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.”

People Feelings Wanted Careers Listening Jokes Extraordinary Laughed Great Feelings

Author:Chris Tucker

“Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.”

Listening Connecting

Author:Justin Trudeau

“To me 30 isn't old. But it's definitely the beginning of no longer young. Because you notice little subtle things happen to you. You'll be in your car driving around listening to the radio and hear stuff like, That's was an oldie from The Clash.”

Littles Happens Young Stuff Car Listening Radio Driving Things Happen Subtle Clash Car Driving

Author:Dana Gould

“In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.”

Mean Listening Communicate Fake

Author:Alonzo Bodden

“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.”

Sometimes Waiting Voice Successful Listening Balance Entrepreneur Driving Staying Persistent Inner Voice Bumps Successful Entrepreneurs

Author:Naveen Jain

“I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different to us. Seeking out podcasts, listening on headphones, it's like an intimate, specific conversation. People respond if it feels from the heart. I'm as neurotic a human being as lives, and I have my faults. I'm a drunk. But people really like that.”

People Ifs Want Feels Humans Heart Different Enough Human Beings Comedy Listening Conversation Faults Seeking Drunk Intimate Pretending Neurotic Headphones Bridesmaids Enough Already

Author:Greg Proops

“Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.”

People Persons Doe Hard Order Listening Dialogue Rely Delivering

Author:J. B. Smoove

“There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.”

Listening Mood Compliment Listening To Music

Author:Jasmine V

“Every now and then it feels like it's just been a few days ago, a few weeks ago since we got started; but looking back through photographs and listening to the older albums and stuff, you can definitely feel some maturing and some distance in between the club days and where we are now”

Feels Stuff Week Listening Distance Photograph Albums Clubs Mature Now And Then Looking Back

Author:Eddie Montgomery

“I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.”

Ifs Way Used My Own Wonder Listening Mom Comfortable Singing Instruments My Mom Tone

Author:Ne-Yo

“I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.”

Knows Used Boys Growing Up Growing Listening Birth Roots Hip Hop Hips Eras Hops Graffiti Know It All

Author:DJ Khaled

“My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.”

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

Knows Life Desire Fear Listening Jonathan Livingston Seagull Livingston Seagull Jonathan Seagull

Author:Richard Bach

“The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.”

People Ifs Feels Wells Might Rooms Talking Listening Conversation Recognition Mutual Talking To Yourself

Author:Dylan Moran

“Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.”

People Needs Giving I Can Pay Cutting Listening Politician Taxes Give Me Hearing Diets Refusal Tax Cuts Yacht

Author:Ann Coulter

“To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.”

Want Country Listening Music Is Hips Worldly

Author:Etta James

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