Top 100 Just Listen Quotes
#1. Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.
Tim O'Brien
#2. When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville
#4. I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.
Freddie Gibbs
#5. If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.
Jon Voight
#6. People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
Ann Wilson
#7. Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.
Ann Turner
#8. Don't just listen with your two ears only. Listen attentively. Listen with every fiber of your being!
Assegid Habtewold
#9. U should not be afraid of doing what ur mind tells you 2 do ... just listen 2 ur heart ... never say never
Justin Bieber
#10. Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what's being said, but more importantly, what's not being said.
Pearl Zhu
#11. There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.
Noam Shpancer
#12. Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.
Deepak Chopra
#13. The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.
Ajahn Amaro
#14. I listen a lot. I think people have their own answers, and if you just listen to someone and agree with them, eventually they'll work it out for themselves.
Eve Plumb
#15. For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.
Pia Toscano
#16. Just listen to the music and paint. Follow the sound. Don't think about rules. Don't worry about getting it perfect. Just let the song carry you." "But what about instructions?" "There are no other instructions.
David Levithan
#17. No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.
Eliza Dushku
#18. He didn't say anything. And then I heard him crying. So I just let him cry. There was nothing I could do. Except listen to his pain. I could do that. I could hardly stand it. But I could do that. Just listen to his pain.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#19. When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.
Michael Jackson
#20. You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
Darrell Johnson
#21. The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
Caleb Deschanel
#23. Usually, if I want to just listen to something or sing along to something, I'll put on some Gavin DeGraw or some Billy Joel. Occasionally, if I am feeling vocally in really great shape, I will sing Jean Valjean's soliloquy from 'Les Miz' or something.
Josh Young
#24. Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.
Perry Brass
#26. Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them, but listen. Just listen.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.
Jill Sobule
#28. I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.
Girl Talk
#29. If you want to traumatize people, treason trials are an extreme way - if there are spies running around in our midst, then we're really in trouble, we'd better just listen to the government and stop thinking.
Noam Chomsky
#30. People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.
Kristoffer Rygg
#31. I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.
Kevin Fowler
#32. But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
Robert Jay Lifton
#33. Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
Ziggy Marley
#34. We don't need anything. Just listen to us and try to understand. Society is good at doing things, 'giving' medical help, pensions, flats. But all this so-called giving has been paid for in very expensive currency. Our blood.
Svetlana Alexievich
#35. Try not to force your idea on someone, but rather think about it with him. If you feel you have won the discussion, that also is the wrong attitude. Try not to win in the argument; just listen to it
Shunryu Suzuki
#36. I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
Barbara Mandrell
#38. Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.
John Lasseter
#39. I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.
Tod Machover
#40. I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#41. Sometimes we need someone to just listen. Not to try and fix anything or offer alternatives, but to just be there ... to listen. An ear that listens can be medicine to a heart that hurts.
Steve Maraboli
#42. Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.
Toby Keith
#43. I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.
Oliver Sim
#44. Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.
Grigoris Deoudis
#45. Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
Etty Hillesum
#46. You don't have to know what to say or what to do; just listen to the one who sent you.
Craig Groeschel
#47. Getting cheated on is far worse than taking a beating. Just listen to all them records about it if you don't believe me.
Daren Dean
#48. Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.
Jaeda DeWalt
#49. I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.
Yoko Ono
#50. Hello," he said, on his best behavior now. "I just wanted to smell you." "Oh." Lines between her eyebrows, the tone of her voice making him want to close his eyes and just listen. "Do you sniff everyone you meet?
Nalini Singh
#51. Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.
David Joyner
#52. Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.
Bill Maher
#53. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention ... . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#54. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
"stuff I think about" book by Sondra Faye
Sondra Faye
#55. I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.
Scott Weiland
#56. I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.
Rob Riggle
#57. You can listen to the secrets of life
in the silence of night,
in the voice of the ocean,
in the beating of your heart.
Just listen with your soul.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Listen." I tugged at my neighbor. "Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite universe ends! What is out there, beyond it?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#59. Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
Jimmy Fallon
#60. I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do ... And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.
Linda Olsson
#61. Do broken pianos play broken songs? Do they have busted melodies for busted hearts? Is there a song living inside it that's waiting to get out? Her keys are shattered and her notes long since silent but I can still hear her song. Just listen, just listen.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#62. I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.
Morena Baccarin
#63. Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.
Mary Jane Walker
#64. I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.
AraabMuzik
#65. I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate ... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished ... but I'm not going there ... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#66. Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.
Yohji Yamamoto
#67. Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.
Karyn Kusama
#68. Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
R. Kelly
#69. Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake.
Cat Winters
#70. Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.
Andre Alexis
#71. Music? All kinda music. I don't just listen to one thing; I listen to everything.
Darryl Dawkins
#72. I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
Paddy Considine
#73. Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.
Kevin Shields
#74. No, just listen. I'm going to tell you the amazing story of us.
Alexandra Bracken
#75. Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
David Lynch
#76. Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs
Jack White
#78. I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'
Benny Blanco
#79. If you get confused, just listen to the music play.
Robert Hunter
#80. I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
William Moseley
#81. May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233)
Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)
Jacqueline Woodson
#82. Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#83. I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Mostly, though, it's Beyonce and show tunes.
Lilla Crawford
#84. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Hugh Elliot
#86. I don't have hardly any caffeine, I don't drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying.
Jayne Middlemiss
#88. The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
Michael Jai White
#89. Just listen to the wind," he says. "That's what I always do." I
Haruki Murakami
#90. I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable ... it's at those times that I just listen to my characters, hold on with both hands, and trust that my readers won't lynch me later.
Dennis Sharpe
#91. The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
Lennie Tristano
#92. The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#93. There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he'd learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to kill you - just listen to them.
Terry Hayes
#94. I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain ... you can feel it. It sets the mood.
Nayvadius Cash
#95. I, it's just, listen, criticism? It's the most important art now, it's the one we need most now. Criticism is the art we need most today. But not, don't you see? not the "if I'd done it myself . . ." Yes, a, a disciplined nostalgia, disciplined recognitions
William Gaddis
#97. I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.
Willa Ford
#99. When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley
#100. Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.
Jeff Henderson
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