Listening Quotes

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

~ Melissa Etheridge

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

~ Julie Roberts

It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'

~ Kelsea Ballerini

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

~ Emma Thompson

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

~ David Gilmour

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

~ Victoria Osteen

I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

~ Maren Morris

I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them.

~ Thomas Newman

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

~ Drake Bell

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

~ Drake Bell

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

~ Christina Perri

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

~ Thomas Hood

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

~ Steve Blank

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

~ Michelle Branch

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

~ Dean Bakopoulos

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

~ Frank Black

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

~ John Cena

I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

~ Katey Sagal

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

~ Jonny Greenwood

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

~ Norah Jones

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

~ Ben Harper

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

~ Gary Cherone

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

~ Jeff Tweedy

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

~ Schoolboy Q

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

~ Larry King

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

~ Patti Smith

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

~ Dan Jenkins

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

~ Frankie Valli

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

~ Bob Graham

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

~ Linda Mccartney

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

~ Willow Shields

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

~ Jools Holland

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

~ Lillian Smith

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

~ Drew Barrymore

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

~ Dimebag Darrell