Top 100 Want To Hear Quotes
#1. I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.
H.L. Mencken
#2. Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Billy Gibbons
#3. And though I wanted to know more about Hadley, I also didn't want to hear him talk about her. But I felt like we had gone looking for this girl, and the only impressions I had of her were from Drew and Bronwyn.
Anonymous
#4. Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
Sara Zarr
#5. There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.
Tom Jones
#6. I don't want you to go. Is that what you want to hear? You want to hear that I want you? That I need you? Because I do, Olivia. I need you.
Lauren Layne
#7. I think with certain artists you want to hear their album ... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.
Rick Rubin
#8. Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, ... for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.
Paul Fussell
#9. The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
#10. Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
Dallas Willard
#11. Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren
#12. There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
Frank Luntz
#13. I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.
Stone Gossard
#14. What if what you know isn't what people want to hear?
Jodi Picoult
#15. I told you," Molly said, never looking toward me. "It's in the past. Leave it there."
"You listening to my head, kiddo?"
Her mouth twitched. "Only when I want to hear the roar of the ocean.
Jim Butcher
#16. I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.
Evanescence
#17. You're not alone. I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong. - Anna White Relationship
Christina G. Hibbert
#18. You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.
Mac Miller
#19. I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.
Alan Palomo
#20. Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
Martha Grimes
#21. I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.
Robert Palmer
#22. It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the silence that follows. That's all.
Peter Tieryas
#23. I don't want to hear what anyone has to say about my life. Living it is hard enough.
C.D. Reiss
#24. There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
El-P
#25. Other children communicate with actions, such as tantrums, yelling, name-calling, and running away. The trick is to disallow this form of expression and encourage verbal communication. "I want to know what you are feeling, but I want to hear you tell me instead of show me.
Henry Cloud
#26. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.
Marissa Meyer
#27. I want to hear you come while Gage fucks you with his tongue. You're so damn hot like this, pressed between us. So fucking hot.
Nicole Edwards
#28. If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Tim Ferriss
#29. When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
Carl Jung
#30. More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
Paula McLain
#31. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
Pat Summitt
#32. I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
Marilyn Monroe
#33. I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
Mose Allison
#34. Just because he doesn't want to hear it doesn't mean you shouldn't say it.
Varian Johnson
#35. I glance back at Shepherd. His eyes betray his mixture of revulsion and curiosity. It's obvious he knows he shouldn't want to hear this, that the horror is too great, yet he can't stop himself from listening.
Carrie Ryan
#36. Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.
John Legend
#37. It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
Rafael Nadal
#38. If you want to hear more like this, just subscribe to my face.
Aarti Patel
#39. At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
Kevin Spacey
#40. I love your sweet voice. I want to hear everything you can tell me. But not right now. Now I need a good little whore to use. You can do that for me, can't you?" He
Skye Warren
#41. People will buy bogus quick-fix solutions all day long, but few want to hear that the way to build a business or make money is to work hard for a long time and never surrender.
Sean Platt
#42. It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.
Christian Scott
#43. Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.
Sophie Tucker
#44. And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
Tanya Tucker
#45. Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap.
"Tell us the story of that fairy who lived in a house of wafers,had a garden of chocolate trees and a pond full of goldfishes,"the child wrapped his arms around his shoulder.
Chitralekha Paul
#46. My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
Ella Eyre
#48. The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.
Sylvia Plath
#49. Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#50. There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.
Big Daddy Kane
#51. In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
Johnny Mathis
#52. I want to feel you deep inside me. I want to hear you groan and pant and moan as you plunge deeper and deeper.
Pepper Winters
#53. I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.
Sarah Palin
#54. You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
Sitting Bull
#55. I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy ... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
Gary Allan
#56. One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
Werner Herzog
#57. Pet, I give you permission to be as vocal as you wish, because I am going to blow your mind in a few minutes and I want to hear how much you enjoy the ride.
Kallypso Masters
#58. You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs ... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
Eric Burdon
#59. Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album.
Juicy J
#60. If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.
Sholom Aleichem
#61. [Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business ... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
Elvis Costello
#62. I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.
James Ellroy
#63. I want to hear you cry out in pleasure again."
"All you have to do is touch me.
Donna Grant
#64. When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.
Kathy Griffin
#65. I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.
Neil Gaiman
#66. There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
Keith Urban
#67. If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.
Malalai Joya
#68. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton
Sophie Kinsella
#69. I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me.
Barbara Mujica
#70. Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.
Billy Graham
#71. I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise.
Billy Graham
#72. I don't want to hear any bullshit about how 'forgiveness' helps you sleep better at night,' because that's not true. (My seven layer mattress is amazing.)
Whitney Gracia Williams
#73. Your mom's not that bad," said Jim. "Are you trying to make me mad?" "Okay she is." "I knew it. You've never liked her." "What's the right answer?" "So you're just telling me what I want to hear?" Jim reached over and put a hand on his wifes. "I love you.
Tim Dorsey
#74. I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.
Laura Linney
#75. It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
Phil McGraw
#76. I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.
Isaac Marion
#77. I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel. "It was all because of the shower gel," I said. Morelli's eyes narrowed. "Shower gel?" I made a major effort not to sigh. "Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.
Janet Evanovich
#78. People didn't want to hear the truth. They had their ideas and any deviation made them uncomfortable.
Tarryn Fisher
#79. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
C.S. Lewis
#80. When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
Billy Beane
#81. He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most "normal" people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.
Rasmenia Massoud
#82. Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart
Maureen Johnson
#83. Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
George Orwell
#84. I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
Trey Anastasio
#85. still remember the way a twenty-year-old shouted, 'I don't want to hear about any political mistakes! I just don't want to! Give me my two legs back if it was all a mistake.
Svetlana Alexievich
#86. As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.
Akon
#87. I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.
Andy Kindler
#88. The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet.
Rachel E. Carter
#89. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.
Jason Mraz
#90. What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak?
Ally Condie
#91. Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho
#92. I know the Infinite's voice because He tells me everything I don't want to hear, sends me where I don't want to go, and asks me to fulfill tasks I consider impossible. Above all, He is forever right.
R.J. Larson
#93. I don't want to hear it. Go back to Sammy and get your platter of gonorrhea with a heaping side order of chlamydia. It's free. Please leave.
Melisa M. Hamling
#94. I lowered my mouth to her ear. "That sound you make when I touch you, I want to hear it." My hand slid beneath her t-shirt, and my thumb trailed beneath her bra and across the bare skin of her breast.
A soft sigh fell from her lips.
My tongue traced her ear. "That's it.
Tess Oliver
#95. Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours
Stephen Colbert
#96. I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.
Paul Kingsnorth
#97. So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing ...
Shaun Tan
#98. I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it.
-Kit to Rue
Shana Abe
#99. People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.
Jennifer Capriati
#100. If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
Payne Stewart
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