Listening Quotes - Page 28

• I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

  Sara Zarr

  School, Winter, Vivaldi

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• I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.

  Rory McCann

  Jobs, Training, Way

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

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• I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."

  Adele

  Anxiety, Gorgeous, You Re Amazing

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright". Interview with Toure, www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

  Adele

  Breakup, Writing, Thinking

  "The year of Adele". “60 Minutes” with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2012.

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• I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

  Tom Waits

  Radio

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

  Tom Waits

  People, Gone, Like You

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• Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

  Lorde

  Rap, Thinking, Years

  "Discovery: Lorde". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• When I was seventeen
  I drank some very good beer
  I drank some very good beer I purchased
  With a fake ID
  My name was Brian McGee
  I stayed up listening to Queen
  When I was seventeen

  Homer

  Queens, Beer, Names

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• I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

  Gerard Way

  Voice, Old Habits, Done

  "My Chemical romance 'can never die', Gerard Way says" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  Veronica Roth

  Book, Reading, People

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• Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.

  James E. Faust

  Men, Years, Desire

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• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, People, Fool

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.65, Full Moon Publications

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• Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Touching, Essentials, Draws

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• Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

  Alexandra Kotur

  Jobs, School, People

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• So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Player, Ears, Bass

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• If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

  James Altucher

  Talking, Want, Ifs

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• Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore

  Marc MacYoung

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• You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

  Chris Hardwick

  Numbers, People, Community

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• 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

  Song, Sound, Want

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• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  Victoria Legrand

  People, Magazines, Way

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• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  Randy Owen

  Song, Writing, Responsibility

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• ... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Girl, Men, Boys

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• Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

  Alex Borstein

  Trying, Sound, Hey

  "Random Rules: Alex Borstein". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2006.

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• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  Scott Putesky

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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