Listening Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.”
– Clara Schumann

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‘em over and over.”
– Clint Eastwood

“I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist‘s big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that’s great.”
– Damien Hirst

“I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.”
– Daniel Radcliffe

“When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.”
– Dave Grohl

“There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.”
– David Byrne

“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
– David Hockney

“I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.”
– David Hockney

“I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the ‘Harry Potter’ books.”
– David Sedaris

“Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues – and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It’s the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.”
– Dee Dee Myers

“On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they’re listening to what you’re saying, you’re off the screen.”
– Doug Coupland

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
– Doug Larson

“It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
– Drew Barrymore

“When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.”
– Eddie Van Halen

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
– Edith Sitwell

“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.”
– Ellie Goulding

“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.”
– Emma Thompson

“Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.”
– Emma Thompson

“I’m not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.”
– Enya

“Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.”
– Eric Clapton

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.”
– Franklin P. Jones

“I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music – I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.”
– Gary Oldman

“I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.”
– George Carlin

“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.”
– George W. Bush

“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.”
– Geronimo

“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
– Graham Greene

“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”
– Henri Nouwen

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