Top 100 When You Listen Quotes
#1. When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.
Matt Ross
#2. One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
Afrojack
#3. You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect.
Harvey MacKay
#4. When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.
Petri Raisanen
#5. When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Eve Ensler
#6. I would say a great song [is where] you like everything in the song. The lyrics move you, the beat makes you want to dance and you feel invincible when you listen to that song. A good song I think you can listen to but you get tired of it really fast.
Aino Jawo
#7. When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.
Trevor Rabin
#8. The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about ... THAT'S what it's about!
Layne Staley
#9. When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
Jay-Z
#10. When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.
Cameron Crowe
#11. When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
Audrey McLaughlin
#12. Be patient when you listen, be gracious when you reply, and be wise when you act.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
Jason Mraz
#14. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.
Daniel Johnston
#15. If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.
Jim Rohn
#16. When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
Hubert Laws
#17. You are worthy and deserving of your desires. Following your heart's Desire is the same as living God's will, when you listen to your inner self and wisdom; you are actually carrying out God's intention.
Malti Bhojwani
#18. I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes
Robin Sloan
#19. When you listen with your soul, you come into rhythm and unity with the music of the universe.
John O'Donohue
#20. Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Willie Nelson
#21. [Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument.
Clark Terry
#23. When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.
Frederick Lenz
#24. When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
Valerie June
#26. The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.
Jon Krakauer
#27. When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
Jared Sparks
#28. Strange, she thinks, how vulnerable the back of your neck feels when you listen to silence.
Glenn Haybittle
#29. When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.
Adam Young
#30. Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.
Lolly Daskal
#31. Judy Garland had this wonderful spontaneity that you just don't see anymore. She was such a witty, witty woman. And when you listen to her on ...
Charles Busch
#32. When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
Randy Houser
#33. When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
Tony Campolo
#35. I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.
Emmylou Harris
#36. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
Stephen Covey
#37. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Steven Spielberg
#38. When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
Christy Turlington
#39. No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.
Tupac Shakur
#40. When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.
Joan Bauer
#41. Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, that's when you sell yourself short.
Tony Curl
#42. Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.
Tom Odell
#43. If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.
M. Ward
#44. To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
R. Kelly
#45. When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.
Jim George
#46. When you listen deeply to someone who suffers, you step into a zone of fire. There is a fire of suffering, of anger burning in the person you are listening to.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass
#48. When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.
Christopher Meledandri
#49. I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
Lee Ann Womack
#50. When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.
Rajneesh
#51. God will make the way clear when the choices you make are in accordance with His will and His purpose, when you listen to His desires for your life." Slipping
Hallee Bridgeman
#52. I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.
Tony Bennett
#53. When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.
R. Murray Schafer
#54. When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
Elie Wiesel
#55. Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
Steve Vai
#56. You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Paul Gauguin
#57. I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
Valerie June
#58. You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."
Z'EV
#59. If you don't feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you're listening to the wrong kind.
Jennifer Salaiz
#60. I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
Serj Tankian
#61. When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.
Clint Eastwood
#62. When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
Woody Norris
#63. When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#64. When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone ... two thinkers, you become confused ... ten thinkers, you'll begin developing your own voice ... two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
Timothy Keller
#65. To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships.
Jennifer Baumgardner
#66. When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.
Jeff Tweedy
#67. Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
R. Kelly
#68. There are points in life when you listen to common sense and there are times when you follow instinct; sometimes, you ignore both and just act on belief.
Aden Jamison Leirer
#69. If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
Estelle
#70. Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
Joseph Campbell
#71. When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.
Kiley Dean
#72. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#73. Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Andrew Mason
#74. I feel you. Inside. In the parts of me I crushed the night my mother died. No matter how I tried to keep you out, you got in and I couldn't let you leave me behind. So listen to me when I say this. My life is yours. You're the reason I'll stay alive. The only goddamn reason.
Dee Tenorio
#75. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.
Barack Obama
#76. When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'
Jeff Greenfield
#77. It you'd only listen to me when I tried to tell you, we'd be all right.
C.S. Lewis
#78. Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.
Breeana Puttroff
#79. When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
Ian Axel
#80. Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.
Susan Sontag
#81. No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer.
Toni Sorenson
#82. She was right, but at the same time she reminded me why girls make both great and terrible friends: They actually listen to your goals, even when you're too drunk to know what you're saying.
Jenny Lawson
#83. You have no idea how difficult it was trying to listen to a single word you said today when all I could think about was how soft they are. How incredible they taste. How perfect they fit between mine.
Colleen Hoover
#84. But listen to me
there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.
Haruki Murakami
#85. When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.
Rose Tremain
#86. When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.
Nayvadius Cash
#87. Your heart beat is my favorite thing to listen to. When you look at me and your heart rate jumps.
Shelly Crane
#88. When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.
Leon Brown
#89. When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.
Joyce Meyer
#90. It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
Alison Krauss
#91. It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.
John Taylor Gatto
#92. 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
Dave Gahan
#93. When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
Ben Horowitz
#94. Relationships never work well when you only listen to yourself.
Richard Foth
#95. I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
Matthew Morrison
#96. You listen to me now and stop cutting me off. It's rude." She stopped moving and dropped her hand. "You can't tell me what I can and can't do; where I can go and who I can see."
She stopped talking so he requested, "May I speak?"
"Only if you don't piss me off when you do it,
Kristen Ashley
#97. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.
Selenis Leyva
#98. When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.
Robyn
#99. When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.
Ram Dass
#100. I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do that because it goes through different waves and sometimes you want to listen to something and at other times you want to listen to something else so I don't know.
John Bush
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