Top 100 Don't Listen Quotes
#1. Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.
Armistead Maupin
#2. If you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
Rumer Godden
#3. People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
Scott Thompson
#4. I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.
Liya Kebede
#5. When you're home, I don't listen to my own music at home.
Celine Dion
#6. Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right.
Greg Giraldo
#7. I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be ... it's not art, it's expression.
Tom DeLonge
#8. If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
Albert Einstein
#10. I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.
David Byrne
#11. Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.
Lauryn Hill
#12. They said no future forget it
You came from the wrong side of town
I said don't listen don't let it
Let it bring you down
Make you wear a frown
Dieter Bohlen
#13. Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.
Pete Seeger
#14. I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
Barbara Bush
#15. I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Ben Webster
#16. I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
Jay Leno
#17. He wondered what commands the Regent would have given to Govart. Do as you please and don't listen to my nephew. He thought, probably something exactly like that.
C.S. Pacat
#18. I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
Leroy Hood
#21. People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo ...
Jennifer James
#22. Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.
Marla Runyan
#23. At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
Celine Dion
#24. I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Natalia Kills
#25. I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
Chang-rae Lee
#26. I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
Nellie McKay
#27. People would tell you how to live life and what to do. Don't listen them. Just do what is right and what your heart wants. They will ultimately agree with you
Laksh Kishore
#28. I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.
Ciara
#29. Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!
Lauren Kate
#30. I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake ... I have a pretty diverse collection.
Kendall Schmidt
#31. I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
Kate Bush
#32. If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.
Strive Masiyiwa
#33. In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
Chet Baker
#34. Don't listen to the lies of darkness calling you a failure and that you won't succeed. If you keep working forward in life and believe you'll succeed ... you will!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#35. I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.
Dolly Parton
#36. I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.
Charles Barkley
#37. You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
Barbara Bush
#38. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
#39. A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
Lenny Kravitz
#40. I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
David Bowie
#41. I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.
Panda Bear
#42. Humans have precious few instincts, but that's because we don't listen to them. We let logic and knowledge get in the way. My dad always said that when instincts are at war with something society has taught you, listen to your instincts first and ask questions later.
Elizabeth Norris
#43. I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.
Peter Capaldi
#44. Girls, don't suffocate your father. He's had a long trip." "Don't listen to your mother, just this once. You can suffocate me all you like.
Marissa Meyer
#45. Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.
P. J. O'Rourke
#46. Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.
Orna Ross
#47. I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
Jane Green
#48. As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?
Dionne Warwick
#49. Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.
Larry Weber
#50. I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.
Bikram Choudhury
#51. I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.
Maurice Strong
#52. Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
Blake Shelton
#53. I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Iris Dement
#54. What we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#55. Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
Bob Inglis
#56. Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Don't listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough
Calice Becker
#58. Don't listen," whispered Faber. "He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out.
Ray Bradbury
#59. Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.
Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.
Toba Beta
#60. If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.
Adam Lambert
#61. When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.
Jay-Z
#62. You don't listen do you? Go away." ... "You don't listen," he said.
Why wouldn't he just leave? I was going to burn up, anyway, with fire creeping up my arms to consume me. My eyes ached with fresh tears. I hated crying.
"But if you listened," he murmured, "I'd be dead.
Jodi Meadows
#63. If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.
Eminem
#65. I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.
Bobby Womack
#66. Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.
Torill Kove
#67. I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.
Doug Martsch
#68. If you think it can be done, then go ahead with boldness. Don't listen to those who do not believe in your dreams.
Debasish Mridha
#70. A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
Daisaku Ikeda
#71. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland
#72. In a globalized economy, it's very difficult for the U.K. to go it alone. Don't listen to politicians. Politicians say if the U.K. leaves, things will be better. I'm telling you, leaving could make things worse.
Wang Jianlin
#73. I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.
David Sylvian
#74. I listen to NPR when I listen to the radio, but I don't listen to the radio that much. You know, I listen to Garrison Keillor, I listen to 'Prairie Home Companion.'
Al Franken
#75. I'm not going over there. Not going. Not going. Yeah, it's not working. I do want to go. A few minutes later, my feet are walking. I tell them to stop, but they don't listen.
Kirby Quinlan
#76. I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#77. So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
Chantal Sutherland
#78. I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
Bernie Worrell
#79. I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
Mike Gordon
#80. If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'
Peter Capaldi
#81. The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see ... not, I'm going to hear.
Branford Marsalis
#82. While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.
Woody Allen
#83. I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
Mose Allison
#84. When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.
Amy Sedaris
#85. Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.
Catherine M. Wallace
#86. I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.
David Sanborn
#87. I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
Kailash Kher
#88. I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.
Ian Curtis
#89. I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
Sloane Stephens
#90. Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
Gloria Steinem
#91. Don't listen the Crowd, don't follow the crowd. It's so stupid that it repeats.
Deyth Banger
#92. Think positive, and don't listen to anyone telling you 'you can't.' You can. Trust me.
Gregg Sulkin
#94. When you fall in love, you don't listen to anyone, because everything seems wrong.
M.F. Moonzajer
#95. The fear comes back but I don't listen to it. I decide the fear itself is nothing of merit, a few little chemicals in my brain, dripping the wrong way. I walk right over and if I must I will walk right through.
Mat Johnson
#96. You know people. Most of them don't hear anything. Those who hear - don't listen. A few who listen - don't understand. And those who could understand ... they don't care.
Bernard Werber
#97. I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
Maira Kalman
#98. If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.
Michael Arrington
#99. People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?
Domhnall Gleeson
#100. Don't listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it's the only way you'll learn.
Stewart Stafford
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