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Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.
Jamie Oliver

Pain, Help, Young

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
Quincy Jones

Night, Through, Young

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
Caroline Corr

Time, Happening, Bands

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
Graham Nash

Music, Time, Long

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.
George Strait

Time, Best, Together

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
Mayer Hawthorne

Music, Education, Rock

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.
James Belushi

Great, Power, Smile

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
Piers Anthony

Fun, Read, Potential

People judged my work without to have listened to it.
Yannick Noah

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
Joseph Barbera

Good, Romantic, Between

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
David Fincher

Someone, Commentary

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.
Ryan Seacrest

Crazy, After, Wanted

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
David Friedman

Spiritual, Said, Song

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
Nick Clooney

May, Interest, Force

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
Nancy Grace

Home, Bed, Critics

I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.
ASAP Rocky

Music, Fashion, Before

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
Adam Jones

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.
Jane Siberry

Life, Music, Long

Two years ago, of course, I was just a rookie and listened to everybody. In a way I am still a rookie. I'm only 23 and I'll be surrounded by great players who have played in a lot more Ryder Cups than myself. But the rankings say I am the best player at the moment and so that brings a responsibility.
Rory McIlroy

Great, Best, Two

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
Marc Newson

Music, Film, Actually

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
Luciano Pavarotti

Art, Important, Everyone

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
Ruben Blades

Dance, Played, Whenever

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
Alex Kapranos

Music, Somebody, Side

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
Tracy Chapman

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
Alonzo Mourning

Basketball, Playing, Won

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
Dick Dale

Romantic, Guitar, Wanted

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
John Hughes

Music, Listen, Jazz

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
Alan Jackson

Words, Wrong, Off

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.
Judy Collins

Together, Put, Mad

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Together, Learned

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