Just Listen Quotes - Page 8

• I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, People, Listening

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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• Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.

  Kevin Shields

  Thinking, Band, Half

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

  Oliver Sim

  Song, Artist, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

  Joe Perry

  People, Albums, Singles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.

  Jill Sobule

  Brother, School, Player

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.

  Angie Everhart

  Breakup, Reality, Thinking

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• Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

  Karyn Kusama

  Pain, Heart, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Anxiety, Needs

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

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• When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

  James Franco

  Voice, Creative, Decision

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash away the notes that I've been working on all day. As human beings we need to sleep so that's kind of one of my little tricks.

  Aaron Zigman

  Sleep, Needs, Pieces

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• Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Eye

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• Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

  Francis Bacon

  Teaching, Voice, Justice

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• Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

  Karyn Kusama

  Spiritual, Pain, Regret

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Just listen Be peace.

  Nhat Hanh

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• ...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

  Robert Hunter

  Confused, Play, Ifs

  "Song: "Franklin's Tower" ("Blues For Allah")". 1975.

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• I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

  William Moseley

  People, Trying, Stuff

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• It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Joy, Trying

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• At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

  Frank Iero

  Listening, First Impression, Firsts

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Events, Watches, Repeating History

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.132, Penguin

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• No, she knows you're here. She can see through the camouflage. But I think she's hiding something from me, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Never mind. Just listen. Once she drinks the tea, she will try ot surprise me with something. She is waiting for the contrast to be fully in effect before she says anything. I knew I never should have let you watch The Wizard of Oz.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Hiding Something, Should Have

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• The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

  Holly Black

  Hard Times, Funny Things, Ideas

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Just listen,” she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.” “Whyever not?” Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,” she said as patiently as she could, “and Lady Clara’s reputation will be stained forever. Do not, I pray you, do anything, Lord Longmore. Leave this to us.” “Us.” “My sisters and me.” “What do you propose? Dressing him to death? Tying him up and making him listen to fashion descriptions?

  Loretta Chase

  Fashion, Blood, Forever

  Loretta Chase (2012). “Scandal Wears Satin”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

  Lisa Kudrow

  Inspirational, Graduation, Moving

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Jun 24, 2011

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