Just Listen Quotes - Page 4

• I know that my music is heard a lot in commercial circles. In academia, I think my music is taken in differently but I'm not sure why that is. Some kind of sixth sense tells me that people in that world are thinking differently about it. I don't know if it has to do with the structure of my music, which is probably more apparent to those in the academic world than it is in the commercial world, where people tend not to think of that aspect of music so much. They just listen for pure enjoyment.

  Jennifer Higdon

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.

  Alex Winston

  Thinking, Reason, Get Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Thinking, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to ride the school bus to school and just listen to music with my headphones. I'd stick my head out the window and just think about how much I wanted to be a singer. I always wanted to do it, but I think I was always in the wrong place. I didn't really have any opportunities. So I left LA four years ago and I really just left my old life behind. I threw everything into pursuing music.

  ZZ Ward

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of the concert hall, the whole thing. If one of those musicians is sharply out of tune or starts to play a different piece of music than all the others in the orchestra, you immediately notice. When you analyze systems by listening, you can just listen, and you can tell whether the system is healthy or unhealthy. What I've created for you is a perfect model of how we should be listening to our stock market, rather than trying to see it graphically.

  Gordon Hempton

  Perfect, Healthy, Listening

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead by Eric Bogosian, and then in L.A. I switched the scene to This is Our Youth and did the same monologue. I was spiky-haired, super skinny. A lot of people were like, "You should come here and do a sitcom." That was the feedback that I got. Obviously it was quite a different journey than the one I've actually had, but I just listened to people.

  Zachary Quinto

  New York, Journey, People

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I'm trying to laugh uncontrollably with whoever I'm making a song with because whatever we just listened to that we just came up with is so dope. I'm chasing that feeling in the studio, not like a trend or what's hot on the radio at the moment. It just seems like the more I do that, the better I get at what I do. I'm going to keep doing that.

  Eric Benet

  Song, Dope, Laughing

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I mostly just listen to my body.

  Gigi Hadid

  Body

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.

  TyDi

  Song, Art, Creating

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

  Afrojack

  Mom, Song, Car

  "Dutch DJ Afrojack: 'I Want to Change the Party Scene' (Q&A)" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 29, 2014.

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• I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and then just listening to it and saying 'Dude, we made that music!' That's really fun.

  Sam McCandless

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Cold Interview With Kelly Hayes (And A Cameo From Drummer Sam McCandless)". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 8, 2003.

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• I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.

  Willa Ford

  Mean, Giving, Feelings

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• I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

  "Oh Mandy! Barry Manilow is back, baby". The Associated Press, www.today.com. February 23, 2006.

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• All over Montana, you can walk into a bar, a café or even a school or a courthouse and just listen for a while as people talk to each other. And you will hear somebody, before very long, say something outrageously racist.

  Brian Schweitzer

  School, Long, People

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• I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

  Ledisi

  Doubt, Different, Celebrate

  "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.

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• You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Philosophical, Heart

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• I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

  Alison Sweeney

  Running, Stress, Kids

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• String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Want, Dimensions, Seven

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.

  Maurice Blondel

  Men, Doe, Watches

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• When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat clean and follow your hunger instincts, well, I really just want to pinch their heads off. That's like a millionaire suggesting that instead of worrying about that's in your bank account, just listen to your shopping instincts and buy high-quality goods . . . weight loss is not magic. To a great extent, it's accounting.

  Chalene Johnson

  Loss, Shopping, Quality Goods

  Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.113, Rodale

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• I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

  Girl Talk

  Thinking, Musical, Records

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Arguing

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