Listening Quotes - Page 24

• I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Mind, Stories, Remember

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

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• Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

  David Bowie

  Philosophy, Secret, Sometimes

  Song: Win, Album: Young Americans, 1975

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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'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 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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• 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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• 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 remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.

  Selma Blair

  Dream, Song, Princess

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• The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

  Adam Gopnik

  Past, Might, Back When

  Adam Gopnik (2009). “Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life”, p.142, Vintage

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• Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what its all about.

  Andrew Zuckerman

  Moving, Thinking, Self

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• The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Art, Life Is

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• May you hear the voice of wisdom.
  Listening, may you act with trust.

  Charlene Costanzo

  Voice, May

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• Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

  Austin Kleon

  Art, Ideas, People

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• There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

  Bill de Blasio

  Strong, People, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

  Alan Watts

  Talking, Ordinary, Moments

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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  Kanye West

  Party, Rome, Years

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Reading, Writing, Blessing

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• A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Sore Throat, Good Listener

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• My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Stars, Children, Real

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

  John Guare

  Ballet, Body, Spirit

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