Listening Quotes

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Serj Tankian

Music, Else, Here

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
Ezra Koenig

Music, Good, Successful

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.
Alison Krauss

Love, Music, Great

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
Ian MacKaye

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
Jane Siberry

Wonderful, She, Writer

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
Ben Harper

Music, Different, Listen

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper

Music, Spiritual, Blind

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
Michelle Williams

Movie, Filming, Monroe

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

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.
Murray Gell-Mann

Time, May, Tell

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.
Geraldine Brooks

Blessing, Knowing, Trouble

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.
Jon Landau

Great, Light, Truly

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.
Ezra Miller

Food, Experience, School

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
Mayer Hawthorne

Music, Important, Kids

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.
Mayer Hawthorne

Enemy, Deep, Learn

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Mayer Hawthorne

Music, Parents, Thinking

I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.
Mayer Hawthorne

Music, Care, Long

I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes.
Jon Lovitz

Saying, Everything, Him

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.
Graham Coxon

Someone, Trying, Tell

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

Music, Moment, Kids

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
Janis Ian

Music, School, Black

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
Patty Duke

Forget, Old, Days

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
Graham Nash

Good, Pretty, Beginning

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
Fred Upton

Time, Political, Sense

The iPod has changed all that because sometimes I listen to an album from beginning to end, but now I put the stuff on shuffle and have the iPod tell me what I'm listening to, especially if I'm working out.
Benicio Del Toro

End, Working, Put

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
Brett Ratner

Acting, Harder, Hardest

One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
Taylor Lautner

Music, Rock, Country

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
Matthew Morrison

Music, Since, Actually

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
Annette Funicello

Experience, Today, After

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
Idina Menzel

Music, Writing, Why

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