A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
Maynard James Keenan

I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
Isaac Mizrahi

First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Gyorgy Ligeti

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.
Desmond Harrington

My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.
David Carradine

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Norman Wisdom

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
Gary Cole

I'll talk. You'll listen.
Bruce Nauman

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Daniel Bell

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
Frank Shorter

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Claude Debussy

Listen and be led.
L. M. Heroux

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Martin Scorsese

The most important thing to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
Jonathan Davis

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
Mason Cooley

I listen to kids play a lot.
Itzhak Perlman

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman