1134 Listening Quotes for You to Enjoy

I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at home. He sang songs with a waltzing rhythm, yet you can still hear the Spanish influences. I accompanied him to his performances. Juan Diego Florez

Music Home You Guitar Listening Father Folk Folk Singer Songs He Performance Singer Him Still Accompanied Hear His Up Influences Grew Rhythm Spanish Sang Popular Popular Music Played

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff. Julia Davis

Women Listening Coffee Think Seeing Some Brought About Mornings He Absorb Stuff Documentary Talking Around How Lot Up Child Suburban Really Used Alan Things Watching

If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react. Julia Garner

You Yourself Listening Partner Too Response Scene Pick Feel Like React Terrible Because Doing Camera Up Get Going Listen Just Means Your Naturally Preoccupied

'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly. Julian Ovenden

Listening Easy Term Often Used Incorrectly

You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening. Julian Treasure

Tired You Listening Bored Detect Hostile Excited Engaged

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time. Julian Treasure

Time World Listening Passive Creating Activity

Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I fall short of on a daily basis. Julian Treasure

Time Day Daily Every Day Listening Wife First Important Fall Every Married Promised Would Something First Time Sound Very Listen Intention Short Now Daily Basis Her Basis

We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing. Julian Treasure

Good Words Simple Listening Nothing Our Everything Way Tendency Absolutely Simple Words Absolutely Nothing Like Know Look Learn However Itself Get Often Human Speaking Basic Desire Two

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally. Julian Treasure

Life Education Home Listening Important Peers Pick Mainstream Overlooked Up Very Expect Children Skill Largely Conscious

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening. Julian Treasure

School Listening Unable Would Would-Be Some Horror More Write Main Read Sort Test Importantly Left Shock Child Story Either Explicitly Much Teach Speaking

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that. Justin Simien

Myself Listening Find Like Blood Orange Artists

I know that it's my queer perspective that's helping people make songs that the world is listening to. Justin Tranter

People World Listening Perspective Songs Know Make Queer Helping Helping People

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand. Justin Trudeau

You Listening Say About Understand Canadians Connecting

I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them. Justin Trudeau

Time Learning Listening Spent Lot Canadians Them Working Awful Awful Lot

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception. K. D. Lang

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing. Kailash Kher

Love Heart Love Is Listening Touch Songs Most Sing Theme Preferred

I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it. Kali Uchis

Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like Chaka Khan to help balance it out. Kamasi Washington

Music Mom Balance Amazing Listening Jazz Khan Out Collection Had He Stuff Like Practicing Whenever Help Dad

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it - they're enjoying it. It's like listening to any other style of music. It's saying something to you, and you kind of just absorb it. Kamasi Washington

Music Saying You Musicians People Listening Style Jazz Other Analyzing Kind Something Absorb Like Greatest Any Listen Just Realize Jazz Musicians Even Enjoying Need

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start. Karen DeCrow

Music Me Listening Become Few Own Bach Our States Phonograph My Own Only He Head Head Start Were Familiar Discussed Did Form Lovers Daddy United United States Chamber Played Start

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns. Kaskade

Music Spiritual Together People Listening Dance Big Dance Music Way Some Hymns Understand Uplifting Far-Fetched Thing Brings Stretch

Listening Quotes

No more listening quotes