Listening Quotes

I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra. Natalie Cole
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I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music. Natalie Maines
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We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock. Nate Ruess
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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. Nate Ruess
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. Naveen Jain
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I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot. Neil Patrick Harris
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I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be. Neri Oxman
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I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. Nick Cave
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I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate. Nick Foles
People Speak Listening Resonate Weaknesses Share Know Because Listen
As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles. Nick Frost
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading. Nick Hornby
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People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset. Nicole Byer
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I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles. Nikki Sixx
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Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am. Nneka
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There was just a moment when I fell in love with singing, probably when I started listening to Ben Howard and his album 'I Forget Where We Were.' I fell in love with that album, and that album really made me fall in love with singing. Noah Cyrus
Love Me Listening Made Singing Fall Fell Were His Forget Just Where Really Moment Started Album Ben
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
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I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media. Noreena Hertz
Saying People Listening Social Media See Could Make Forecasts Were Whether Predictions Interested Social Really Media
If you started listening to me in the same time we started rapping, we're aging together. Offset
Time Me You Together Listening Rapping Same Same Time Aging Started
Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated. Ofra Strauss
You People Listening Care Will About Open Make Isolated Transparent Who
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking 'I should have done this.' Scoring goals was all I thought about. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
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Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad. Om Malik
Music Listening Bad Like Sure Spotify Mean Streaming Vinyl
My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds. Orianthi
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone. Orlando Bloom
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. Oscar Hijuelos
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up. P. J. Harvey
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Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage. Pamela Druckerman
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