Listening Quotes - Page 24

• I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

  Cat Cora

  Talking, Ideas, Advice

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• I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

  Casey Abrams

  Beautiful, Song, Crazy

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

  Casey Affleck

  Mom, Long, Choices

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

  David Amram

  Four, Way, Gorgeous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

  John Cena

  Hip Hop, Rhyming, Hips

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

  Charles Durning

  Play, Acting, Goes On

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

  Jeff Daniels

  Thinking, Littles, Hearing

  "CLICK Blog" by Tim Man, www.politico.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

  Brett Eldredge

  Grandpa, Car, Riding

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• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, People, Diversity

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• I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Voice, Years

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• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

  Charles Frazier

  Giving Up, Reading, Sticks

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• 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

  Song, Beach, Husband

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• I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Mean, Taste, Sometimes

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• Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

  Donald Glover

  Kids, Want, I Realized

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Couple, Names, America

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• 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

  Song, Clever, Numbers

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• I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Mean, Play, Differences

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• Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

  Jane Asher

  World, Brahms, Brilliance

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• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  Namie Amuro

  People, Singing, Trying

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• That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

  Paul Allen

  Life Changing, Would Be, Signals

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sound, Pieces, Wanted

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• You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

  Garth Brooks

  Relationship, Fall, Heart

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