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Listening Quotes

"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty."

Imelda Marcos, Filipino Celebrity

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"It's hard listening to myself."

Meg White, American Musician

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"I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it."

Wanda Jackson, American Musician

"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"

Garth Brooks, American Musician

"You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself."

Ruggiero Ricci, American Musician

"I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles."

LaToya London, American Musician

Listening, Race, Want

"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"

Brigham Young, American Leader

Listening, May, Silence

"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."

Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Musician

Listening, Teaching

"I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice."

Jill Scott, American Musician

Listening, Practice, Training

"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."

George Carlin, American Comedian

"You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody."

Juliana Hatfield, American Musician

"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

Listening, Play, Punk, Television

"A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar."

Sean Booth, English Musician

"All of my style came from listening to records."

Lindsey Buckingham, American Musician

Listening, Style

"But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up."

Reba McEntire, American Musician

Listening, Song, Want

"All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to."

Grandmaster Flash, American Musician

Listening, Will

"When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening."

Craig Bruce, American Radio Host

Listening, Talk

"You can't fake listening. It shows."

Raquel Welch, American Actress

"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations."

Henry Reed, English Writer

Listening, Hearing, Sensations, Sense

"I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song."

Tom Araya, American Musician

Listening, Name, Song

"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week."

Donella Meadows, American Environmentalist

Listening, News

"Learn to listen, not just hear. Listening is an art."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Listening, Awareness

"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great."

Bernadette Peters, American Actress

"Listening is the only way to entertain some folks."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

"Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio."

Tom Araya, American Musician

"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."

Thurston Moore, American Musician

"I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging."

Kathy Griffin, American Comedian

"I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it."

Wynton Marsalis, American Musician

"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

Listening, Nagging, Quiet

"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Listening, Newspapers, Nothing

"The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual."

Polly Berrien Berends, American Author

"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."

Robert Quine, American Musician

"I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack."

Kevin Richardson, American Musician

Listening, Living, Lying, Night

"Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say."

Charles Stanley, American Clergyman

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

Frankie Valli, American Musician

Listening, Summer

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

Plutarch, Greek Philosopher

Listening, Profit, Talk, Will

"I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Listening, Past

"I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know."

David Thewlis, English Actor

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