Top 100 Listening To Quotes
#1. Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.
Rick Riordan
#2. The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
Sydney J. Harris
#3. Listening to teens talk about social media addiction reveals an interest not in features of their computers, smartphones, or even particular social media sites but in each other.
Danah Boyd
#4. I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
David Lynch
#5. I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.
Hope Partlow
#6. I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.
Brian Michael Bendis
#7. I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.
Tom Jones
#8. My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.
Kevin Bacon
#9. Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do. -Joseph Dahr.
Ray Anyasi
#10. Every song I am listening to
It has an imaginary story about you.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#11. I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Billy Corgan
#12. There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just ... I love that.
Sam Heughan
#13. Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
John Lennon
#14. If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker
#15. I'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
J.D. Salinger
#16. I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.
Jane Hirshfield
#17. The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
Ben Gibbard
#18. I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down: how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger
Mary Karr
#19. Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#20. I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.
James Mercer
#21. Stop listening to people who don't experience happiness, success, peace, and fulfillment themselves. Don't let them tell you what is right and wrong!
Maddy Malhotra
#22. My mom says Ingrid's name and I start to hum, not the melody to a song, just one drawn-out note. I know it makes me seem crazy, I know it won't make anything change, but it's better than crying, it's better than screaming, it's better than listening to what they're telling me.
Nina LaCour
#23. Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.
Armando Iannucci
#24. I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
Edwyn Collins
#25. The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
#26. I started off from a very early age listening to music - all the usual cheesy stuff that little kids like.
Iwan Rheon
#27. 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
#28. If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.
Johnny Marr
#29. I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
Jake Owen
#30. Never stop dreaming. Never stop listening to the music that is inside of you.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Music's the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There's always music. If I'm not playing it, I'm listening to it. With my writing ... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I'm working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
Charles De Lint
#32. When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.
Erik Weihenmayer
#33. Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.
Tena Desae
#34. I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.
Chuck Klosterman
#35. We're not looking for any particular experience, for the breath or the body to be a special way. Rather, we're simply listening to, being aware of, and receiving the contact of whatever presents itself.
Anonymous
#36. I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.
Margaret Cho
#37. Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh, you know? We could approach it with such fresh ears, which wouldn't be possible if we had been listening to it when we were younger.
Luka Sulic
#38. I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Sondre Lerche
#39. A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill.
Paulo Coelho
#40. Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging.
Kevin Shields
#42. For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
Tahir Shah
#43. He had spent hours listening to how the pull of certain people would supposedly make the world stop. Now he knew it was wrong. The word hadn't stopped. The world had just started to churn and breathe and live.
Roshani Chokshi
#44. I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.
Harry Redknapp
#45. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.
Tony Curl
#46. I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
Orson Welles
#47. When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
Natalia Kills
#48. I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.
Michel Faber
#49. During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#50. Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson ... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Austin Mahone
#51. I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Mayer Hawthorne
#52. Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, couting prayer beads no more scared than simply breathing, religious robed no more spiritual than work clothes.
Lao-Tzu
#53. I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#54. Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes ... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber ... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
#55. Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
Naveen Jain
#56. I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
Jimmy Cliff
#57. How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.
Tony Robbins
#58. Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
Linus Torvalds
#59. I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.
Matisyahu
#60. I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.
Juicy J
#61. I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.
Paris Hilton
#62. We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm
#63. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.
Jonathan Groff
#64. There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson
#65. Playing big doesn't come from working more, pushing harder, or finding confidence. It comes from listening to the most powerful and secure part of you, not the voice of self-doubt.
Tara Mohr
#66. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan W. Watts
#67. The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.
Doug Morris
#68. Sitting in the empty classroom and listening to the faraway sounds of noisy students in the cafeteria, I was reminded of feeling sick in class and being sent to the school nurse. The nurse's office had that same muffled sense of distance, like a satellite to the loud planet that was the school.
Maggie Stiefvater
#69. Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?
Patricia Briggs
#70. When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
Gerry Mulligan
#71. We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.
Janet Mock
#72. You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly ... what he is saying inwardly.
Frederick Lenz
#73. I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
Action Bronson
#74. I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A. J. McLean
#75. Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn't always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.
Jimi Hendrix
#76. Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
Patty Griffin
#77. The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
John Guare
#78. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
John Niven
#79. After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53).
Quentin R. Bufogle
#80. The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.
Scott Aukerman
#81. Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.
Henry R Brandt
#82. 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
#83. But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'
Frank Laubach
#84. I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
Don Henley
#85. I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
#86. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
Allen Ginsberg
#87. I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.
Young Jeezy
#88. Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.
Isak Dinesen
#89. I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
F. Sionil Jose
#90. I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
Steve Vai
#91. Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words.
Cheryl Hamada
#92. In fifteen years, all those disturbing biological blobs would be out on Kareenburg's streets, wearing strange fashions, listening to annoying music, and disagreeing politically with their beleaguered parents.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#93. There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.
Scott Speedman
#94. Nothing . . . no woman . . . no piece of ass or fake boob thrust in my face will ever turn my eye away from you. Nothing and no one will ever come close to making me feel the way I do just when I'm holding your hand, or listening to you breathe at night. Nothing compares.
Anonymous
#95. Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me.
Khaled Hosseini
#96. Thankful that I can share the disturbing stories in my brain with people."
"I have so many stories to tell you...of course that is if you plan on listening to them...
Kelly Fisher
#97. I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
Carrie Underwood
#98. If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#99. Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
John C. Maxwell
#100. Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
Geezer Butler
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