Just Listen Quotes - Page 3

• You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Talking, Voice, Listening

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• People are like, 'What do you mean you don't listen to 115 different types of music?'. You can't just listen to The Smiths anymore. But then there are plenty of people that do only listen to five bands and six albums and that's it. My playlists are massively varied. There's never a theme throughout, it's never like everything is based in funk or based in reggae or whatever. It's 210BPM gabber-style techno and 40BPM reggae in the same list and it's like, yeah, they work.

  Adam Faulkner

  Mean, People, Different

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• He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

  B. B. King

  Music, Play, Names

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• I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Moving, Spices

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• I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

  Morena Baccarin

  Believe, Npr, Watches

  "Homeland's Morena Baccarin Takes a Political Stand". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. May 22, 2013.

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• It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.

  Zanele Muholi

  Issues, Listening, Has Beens

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• Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

  Sia Furler

  Voice, Listening, Singing

  "Sia Learns to Sound Like Herself". "Day to Day" with Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.

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• Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

  Guido Molinari

  Music, Art, Listening

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• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Night, Two

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• Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

  R. Kelly

  Sweet, Sweet Music

  "Man in the mirror" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

  Aaron Neville

  Records

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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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• Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.

  Dean Baquet

  Shut Up

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• I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll see a guy selling pretzels or an argument that somebody's having on a stoop and I'll think, "Oh I wish I had my camera, I wish I could capture this moment." There's something about people being people and interacting that can be so beautiful when it's framed by a camera. That desire to capture people as they are, and the stubbornness to keep going when they don't necessarily want you to capture them being who they are, are key.

  Marshall Curry

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wall, Night, Fire

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Listening, Sound

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• In the UK, most of the nasheeds that I did were in my native language, Urdu. Youngsters who could not understand the language came up to me... [and] said it was a great experience to just listen. That was actually very heart warming for me.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Heart, Native Language, Urdu

  Source: irusa.org

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• The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

  Ed Simons

  Solitude, Listening, Laptops

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• My work is nice, natural, it's never "been there done that," my work remains very interesting without losing my soul - because it's really me, and I am always honest with myself. I don't care what's in or out, I just listen to myself. And it's very nice to able to work like that. At the beginning people might have wondered what I was doing, but now they know my line, my evolution, I'm respected for that and that's a wonderful feeling.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Nice, Interesting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.

  T.I.

  Use, Want, I've Learned

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

  Kevin Drum

  Media, Mouths, Should

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• Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.

  Jon Gordon

  Past, Men, Guy

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• I just always wanted a platform. In the past, I always dreamed of having a following and a fan base - you know, a group of people just listening and paying attention to what I was making. I think the reality kicked in that you have to make a living so that you have enough time to keep creating, you know? 'Cause if you're not making a living at this, then you're making a living working another job, and if you're working another job, you're spending all your time doing that and can't put enough time into the music.

  G-Eazy

  Jobs, Past, Reality

  Source: www.thecomeupshow.com

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• My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."

  Morgan Spurlock

  Mom, Kids, Used

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who can be the first to say the Arab Spring is going to fail. Everyone says, "I told you so, I told you so about the Muslim Brotherhood." I have no desire to tell anyone anything. I don't know. I'm just listening, watching. It may turn out all these people are right, they may be wrong. They may be right this year and wrong next year, by the way. I'm just trying to listen day to day, figure it out.

  Thomas Friedman

  Spring, Humble, Years

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