Top 100 I Am Listening Quotes
#1. I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
Caroline Norton
#2. When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature
Julia Cameron
#3. There are definitely times where I am listening to the radio, and I think, 'That would be awesome. I would love to sing that.' It's this weird karaoke fantasy that I might someday get to live out on the big screen.
Skylar Astin
#4. Every song I am listening to
It has an imaginary story about you.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#5. To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.
Alan Watts
#6. I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.
Rachel Cohn
#7. Naps are not a sign of physical slovenliness. They are a sign that I am listening to my body. It will reward me with stable emotions, hormones that stay in check, social finesse, continued cleverness, and the ability to write prose that does not make me gag.
Thomm Quackenbush
#8. I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
William Whitelaw
#9. When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
Saul Leiter
#10. I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.
China Forbes
#11. He gives me all his numbers and writes mine down on a tram ticket. I am listening hard, but he doesn't say I'll call you.
Toni Jordan
#12. I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.
Steven Brust
#13. He's fine," Kamala said. "It's not like that. You're not listening." "I am listening! You just told me he's delusional, and I'm asking - " "I DID NOT SAY HE IS DELUSIONAL. I SAID HE WAS TALKING TO HIS MOTHER." "Who is dead," Amina said gently. "Obvious." "And that's not delusional?
Mira Jacob
#14. I hope you know that I am listening, should you ever change your mind.
Julia Quinn
#15. The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome ... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can be unearthed and illuminated - on condition that I am listening - with my spirit, heart, eyes and guts on a single axis.
Nina Menkes
#16. I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#17. I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
Ben Stein
#18. My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going to be in darkkkk.
Deyth Banger
#19. My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
Rabindranath Tagore
#20. So speak that I may hear, Lord, my heart is listening; open it that it may hear Thee say to my soul I am Thy salvation. Hearing that word, let me come in haste to lay hold upon Thee. Hide not Thy face from me.19 Let me see Thy face even if I die,20 lest I die with longing to see it.
Augustine Of Hippo
#21. If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
Zoot Sims
#22. I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.
Jacques Villeneuve
#23. I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening.
Kelsey Sutton
#24. I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!
Wendy Williams
#25. I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
Allan Dare Pearce
#26. I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.
John Darnielle
#27. I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
William Howard Taft
#28. I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort.
Terry Tempest Williams
#29. I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
Edgar Winter
#30. Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '
but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?
Lewis Carroll
#31. How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.
Aisha Tyler
#32. Since I am me, I find it very difficult to judge how fascinating listening to my nasal, heavily-accented drone for two hours would be to somebody who wasn't me.
Alan Moore
#34. And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.
Khalil Gibran
#35. I'm all about unity and loving your neighbor ... If somebody told me when I was growing up that the music I was listening to was stupid, and I listened to them, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Drake Bell
#36. I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
Leontyne Price
#37. When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.
George Carlin
#38. I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music ... healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!
Judy Collins
#39. So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
George Gamow
#40. My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.
Rafal Blechacz
#41. I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.
Teddy Thompson
#42. The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.
Jim Al-Khalili
#43. When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you.
Muriel Rukeyser
#44. Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.
Paul Theroux
#45. I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
Nhat Hanh
#46. Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.
Richard Rodgers
#47. I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
Oscar Hijuelos
#48. I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am i making any sound at all?
Alice Oseman
#49. When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
Aaron Copland
#50. I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.
Emilie Autumn
#51. I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#52. I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
John Green
#53. Usually I am the only subject I care to discuss with company. But when I'm getting reacquainted with an old friend, I really enjoy just sitting back and listening to them talk about me for a while.
Bauvard
#54. Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.
Troy Dumais
#55. I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
Virginia Woolf
#56. I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
Li-Young Lee
#57. I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
Oscar Wilde
#58. I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.
George Foreman
#59. I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.
John Hodgman
#60. I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'
Conor Maynard
#61. When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.
Tori Amos
#62. I spend days on my Xperia logging on Facebook chatting with my friends and family at home; I love listening to Rihanna and Pink and watching movies. Basically, anything that makes me smile, but most of my fans will know that I am always smiling!
Dominika Cibulkova
#63. English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.
Guy Pearce
#64. Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Will Self
#65. The word of God can require something of me today that it did not require yesterday; this means that, if I am to hear this challenge, I must be fundamentally open and listening.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#67. Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
Nneka
#68. I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors
Joyce Dyer
#69. And now I'm really, really, really tired and I want to fall asleep listening to someone tell me how much they like me and how pretty I am and stuff. That's all I want. And when I wake up, I'll be full of energy and I'll never make these kinds of selfish demands again. I swear. I'll be a good girl.
Haruki Murakami
#70. Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.
Frank Herbert
#71. You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
Oscar Wilde
#72. The most devout moments of my life have been spent in bed at night listening to those bells. They flood over me, drawing me out of myself. I know where I am suddenly; part of this town and happy. I lean out of the window and am washed by the cool air, air it seems no one has yet breathed.
James Salter
#73. I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#75. If you ever find yourself presented with a fork in the road of life and you do not know the correct direction, close your eyes and listen to your heart. I have found more adventure, more love, more happiness, and more life by listening to who I am, rather than attempting to tell myself.
Karen Hawkins
#76. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
Maya Angelou
#77. I though you said it was easy, listening to your heart. I thought you said I'd be okay. So why am I breaking apart.
Miley Cyrus
#78. I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
Elizabeth Berg
#79. My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.
Tess Henley
#80. I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make ... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.
Sivamani
#81. I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.
William Fitzsimmons
#82. July.
I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.
Bram Stoker
#83. I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.
Mark Twain
#84. I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
Rush Limbaugh
#85. I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Rumi
#86. I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
Duke Ellington
#87. I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.
Beyonce Knowles
#88. Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.
Eric Hernandez
#89. For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull?
Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining."
Your immensely entertaining sister,
Miri
Shannon Hale
#90. This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
Paulo Freire
#91. I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.
Cheyenne Jackson
#92. When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
Madeleine L'Engle
#93. You think you are a lot funnier than you are, you know," he replied, not looking away from the cannon.
"I am extremely amusing! I don't think you are listening properly.
Lauren James
#94. I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That's what I am and that's what I'll always be from. I was never running away from it.
Katy Perry
#95. Unless the radio is on, I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.
Leona Lewis
#96. The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
Mark Nepo
#97. I hope you stand there for me, even though I won't be listening, I hope you speak like I am hearing, that's the man you are to me, that's the only man I want to keep here inside of me. That's the man you can be, and that's the man I will take with me.
Coco J. Ginger
#98. It's a lot to ask, but I need you to listen to a story that I've never told anyone,' Varg answered.
'Why would listening be a lot to ask?' Milea inquired.
Varg paused. 'Because the story I am about to tell you may make you see me as a monster.
Brittany Comeaux
#99. My main influence is - it's music. It lifts the spirit. I am always listening to music. And sometimes what inspires me is a little sound or some small arrangement. I really do listen to music continuously all day long - very loud, so people can't stand to be around me anymore.
Donatella Versace
#100. I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Henry J. Kaiser
