“If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.” IfsKnowsWantStillsImportantWholeBehindsPlayerListeningGrewGrew UpNotesGuitarTrackAlbumsStudiosProducersBuyingJapanListening To MusicDrummerGuitar PlayerVinyl Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?” PeopleIfsWantImportantStoriesLyingChoicesPayAttentionShareListeningProudPay AttentionAshamedRough Times Author:Marge Piercy
“You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsHumansWellsMayPersonsSaidStatesGovernmentLastsThreePresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesExampleListeningRelationVicesAdministrationSenatorsMidnightThree TimesPsychiatristHuman RelationsVice PresidentBidenDatabases Author:Ron Wyden
“I grew up watching Lindsay and it made me want to do what she does. Just the whole vibe. Being there, being on camera, or on stage, with everybody listening to you it's so cool when people look up to you. I've already been asked for my autograph and it's just a really good feeling to have.” PeopleWantLooksDoeMadeWholeFeelingsStageListeningGrewGrew UpCamerasLook UpUp To YouBeing ThereAutographsGood Feeling Author:Ali Lohan
“For the future, be true to yourself. If you're gonna be influenced by someone be influenced by them. Don't cop them so much that you're a clone. No one wants to deal with a clone. There's not that much more substance in being a clone, but definitely be influenced by people...take what you can from that and sculpt it into your own situation. In doing so, you'll be happy and I think your people will be happy listening to what you do.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantDealsSituationListeningBeing TrueSubstanceCopBe True To YourselfTrue To Yourself Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad
“When you are influential and highly respected, people tend to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear. They are seeking your approval, or they flatter you. Unfortunately, this creates a gap between what you hear and reality. If you find yourself in that situation, you will need to work extra hard to get the people close to you to speak honestly into your life. And you will have to become highly intentional in observing and listening.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsHardRealitySpeakSituationListeningSeekingWhat You WantHonestlyExtrasFinding YourselfGapsApprovalObservingInfluential Author:John C. Maxwell
“I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.” IfsWantShouldReadingDoorsListeningInternetCompareAbout Yourself Author:Mark Gatiss
“I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in their lives. That's not my motivation. I have a lot of cool things to do other than sitting around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and being compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that. If you want somebody who has a heart for people, who can fight for people, and can fix these things, then there are a couple other people, and I believe I'm the best one.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveHeartMotivationFightingI BelievePresidentListeningTrumpCoupleJokesSittingMiserableThings To DoDeclineDominantCompelledSitting AroundCool ThingsGridlock Author:Jeb Bush
“A lot of my musical education was done simply by listening. If you really want to excel on your instrument, it's almost impossible to not develop and analyze what you see and hear and to incorporate all of it into your own playing.” IfsWantDoneImpossibleListeningInstrumentsMusicalMusical Education Author:David Finckel
“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.” PeopleIfsWantWritingFirstsMeanReadingRecordsJudgingListeningHabitWindowOver ItComprehensionToss Author:Frank Zappa
“People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.” PeopleWantPayAttentionRecordsListeningWhat You WantPay AttentionShouting Author:Geoff Rickly
“In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.” IfsWantGivingEmotionListeningSingingCheat Author:Andrea Bocelli
“What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.” IfsWantGivingMeanUseCertainSongGrowsVoiceEmotionListeningSingingInstrumentsCelebrateLive Every Day Author:Andrea Bocelli
“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.” IfsKnowsWayWantBelieveCharacterSeemsAudienceExampleListeningSceneConflictSpeechHappeningsDefenseTricksJustifiedAnother Way Author:Ernest Lehman
“I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.” ThinkingKnowsWantSpeakListeningSpeak The TruthSubversive Author:Robert Mankoff
“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.” WantRealFallGirlBreakListeningGiantsAntiquesSlow MotionHourglassEvanescence Author:Dane Cook
“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.” WantEnergySilenceAudienceLaughingListeningFilledBoredSilence IsPins Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“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.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsHumansHeartDifferentEnoughHuman BeingsComedyListeningConversationFaultsSeekingDrunkIntimatePretendingNeuroticHeadphonesBridesmaidsEnough Already Author:Greg Proops
“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.” WantCountryListeningMusic IsHipsWorldly Author:Etta James
“I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.” WantWellsHas BeensI CanAgeCan DoCrazyListeningGrewGrew UpPassionatePopsUrbanVery Happy Author:Ariana Grande
“When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it” KnowsWantHappensListeningAlbumsThings HappenOver ItI Want YouGet Over Author:Brooke Valentine
“Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to dance. I've been listening to electronic music forever and I just wanted to have something dancey.” WantMadeWantedSongForeverExampleListeningElementsAlbumsProductionsPopsElectronic Music Author:Michelle Chamuel
“I don't have an agenda. I don't have things I want to get to or something. I have like a broad, slim grasp of certain periods and certain shows within that period, an awareness of them, but they demand re-listening. I have a flimsy grasp of all the eras and ideas within each period of what would be a good show to think of.” ThinkingWantIdeasShowsWould BeCertainAwarenessListeningPeriodsDemandErasAgendasBroadsSlim Author:Dick Latvala
“It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.” PeopleWantIdeasPastStuffParentSituationRecordsWonderfulListeningElementsFinancialStoresLooking BackWonderful ThingsRejectingRecyclingThriftNew MusicCollectibles Author:Christian Marclay
“I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.” IfsThinkingWantMayCountrySongLinesHeardFansListeningMusic IsGood ThingsRoundsGenreFloridaGeorgiaCruisePandoraGeorge Jones Author:Scotty McCreery
“Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.” WantHappensActionPastPrayerAttentionListeningMy FamilyPaidMy FutureMy Past Author:Adam Savage
“When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.” WantSongStreetsCarListeningMomWalkingRadioHeyNever ChangeJust Listen Author:Afrojack
“Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?” WantEasyChallengesListeningConversationDinnerGood Conversation Author:Hilton Als
“It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksMayEasyActingHellListeningSceneIntellectualLatterSpontaneousListening To Others Author:Gary Cole
“I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.” PeopleWantPersonsDifferentListeningSelfishDifferent ThingsReally AmazingAmazing PeopleDifferent Music Author:Charli XCX
“I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.” PeopleWantYearsRememberSongListeningTenMemorableEmsGreat Times Author:Cher Lloyd
“I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.” WantFirstsRecordsListeningGorgeous Author:Sam Amidon
“I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHeavenStuffListeningNewsDiscouraging Author:Stephen W. Thompson
“I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.” IfsThinkingWayWantCharacterInterestingAliveListeningActivePassiveSpyInteresting Characters Author:Tom Hiddleston
“If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.” IfsWantGivingWritingTryingMindEyeGuySongFoundBlackFiguresListeningAlbumsStealingFrame Of MindGalsBlack Eyes Author:Loretta Lynn
“If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.” IfsWantYearsHeartSoulWholeListeningMy HeartWhole LifeHeart And SoulStaples Author:Blake Judd
“I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like when things like music come out and you're listening to a song and you have experiences with art or phenomena that supersede your simple relationship with them as just a piece of art. They're more than that. That's just what those quote are for me. They're big, they're important.” WantWritingLooksKindArtImportantBigsSongSimpleForgetPiecesListeningDown And Author:Justin Vernon
“I think I was in high school, actually, and it was a guidance counselor or someone said, you know, you're just too loud; like you need to just stop talking so much and stop being so opinionated; like no one wants to listen to you because you're really annoying. And I'm glad that I didn't shut up, because it seems like people are listening.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsSaidSeemsSchoolTalkingLike YouListeningHigh SchoolGladLoudGuidanceAnnoyingShut UpCounselorOpinionatedGuidance Counselor Author:Jessica Valenti
“I wrote "Win" for people on both sides, legitimately on both sides. If you're a Democrat listening to this right now, you - the whole playbook is in this book. If you're a Republican, and you're frustrated because Barack Obama is a great communicator, the playbook is in this book. And if you're a corporation who wants to satisfy his - their employees, how to do it is in this book. And finally, if you're an employee and you want to get a raise, whether at NPR or anyplace else, it's in this book.” PeopleIfsWantBookWholeWinningSidesListeningRepublicanRight NowRaisesDemocratBarackCorporationsEmployeeFrustratedBoth SidesCommunicatorsNprPlaybooks Author:Frank Luntz
“Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.” WantNeedsHelpingPassionSpeakInterestListeningInvolvedCaughtListenersCaught Up Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.” WantMayEnoughClearListeningPleaseAuthorityImmigrationInterviews Author:John Oliver
“Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening.” WantWellsStillsGovernmentForgetListeningCitizensSocialismPollsUssrOver 50Russian Government Author:Andre Vltchek
“Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.” WantWritingKindGroupsInspireListening Author:LeAnn Rimes
“I want to change how women think of and feel about marketing. It not only helps women get the results they want, but marketing brings out our best human attributes: true listening, compassion, honesty, and a spirit of service.” ThinkingWantFeelsHumansHelpingSpiritResultsCompassionHonestyListeningMarketingAttributes Author:Marie Forleo
“You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.” PeopleKnowsWantRecordsListeningSellingGoing OutAcclaim Author:Kevin Drew
“They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing."” WantShouldWritingSaidAnswersRaceListeningPercentBlameBoringHearingJournalistCandidatesSay AnythingControversial Author:Roger Ailes
“Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take the plunge, but when I realized it was just a direct connection to our customer and these women, I did it. I like listening to their stories and their feedback.” WantStoriesSocialMediaListeningDirectConnectionsAccountsSocial MediaCustomersI RealizedFeedbackExposureInstagramPlunge Author:Eva Mendes
“If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.” IfsThinkingWantMovingListeningBreathsMovedGuitarTrackStudiosSmellPianoArrangementsGoing To WorkHorns Author:Eric Benet
“[My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.” PeopleWantNeedsRealLinesFashionListeningInspiredTranslate Author:Zendaya
“Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.” PeopleIfsWantHouseGrowing UpGrowingListeningCaliforniaGrandmotherItalianEgyptWorldlyMy GrandmotherMexican Author:Maya Angelou