Listening Quotes - Page 36

• The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Important, Things I Love

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  J.K. Simmons

  Wall, Grateful, My Sister

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

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• I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Tired, Shopping, Ipods

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Nice, People, Appreciate

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• Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Song, Rain, Home

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• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Beach, Yoga, Long Walks

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• I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

  Stefon Harris

  Cities, Soul, Wonder

  "Stefon Harris thinks creativity is overrated". Interview with Matthew Borlik and Michael J. West, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.

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• The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Doe, He Man

  charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

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• The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

  Evan Esar

  Long, Stories, Way

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• The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

  Evan Esar

  Sides, Argument, No One Listening

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• When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity.

  Claude Debussy

  Past, Symphony, Sun

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• Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

  Paul Newman

  Government, Honor, Enemy

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• Not everyone is worth listening to.

  Alain de Botton

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Water, May, Sake

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• For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

  Stefan Zweig

  Play, Nerves, Passionate

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Firsts, Actors, Reacting

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Her Tabloid “Feud” with Kristen Stewart, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Electronics, Nasa, Pins

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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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, Important

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• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  Ursula Burns

  People, Said, Wanted

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• A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Reading, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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• Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Flattering, Fellows

  George Horace Lorimer (2008). “Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Religion, Needs

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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