Listening Quotes - Page 26

• Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

  Hoda Kotb

  Important, Tone, Conversation

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Clubs

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• At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

  Nancy McKeon

  Band, Moments, Dave

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• I really like listening to music in my car.

  Aaron Neville

  Car, Listening To Music

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• I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

  Graham Nash

  Hollies, Sound, Stuff

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• My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Father, Eye, Player

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• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  Chris Ofili

  Hip Hop, Enemy, Trying

  "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

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• Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

  Will Oldham

  Roots, People, Trying

  "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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• What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

  Will Oldham

  Singing, Records, Music Making

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  Gary Lucas

  Littles, New Music, Little Time

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• Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.

  Greg Laswell

  Song, Sometimes, Force

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• What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

  Trevor Nunn

  Humility, Play, People

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• 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

  Country, Song, Dad

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• On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

  Patti Page

  Radio, Jazz, Easy

  "Patti Page, Proving That Simple Songs Endure" by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2003.

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• It's about listening first, then selling.

  Erik Qualman

  Firsts, Selling

  Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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• My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

  Robert Quine

  Stuff, Miles

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• Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

  Brett Ratner

  Acting, Hardest, Harder

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 07, 2007.

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• Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

  Jerry Reed

  Powerful, Earth, Music Is

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• Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

  Karrine Steffans

  Men, Different, Want

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• I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Art Is

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• In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

  Kiki Smith

  Mother, Art, Father

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• I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

  Tammin Sursok

  Parent, Stuff, Grew Up

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

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• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  Tammin Sursok

  Jewels, Dido, Stones

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

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• I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

  David Sylvian

  Reading, Thinking, Culture

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

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• I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

  Emeli Sande

  Song, Writing, People

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