I don’t listen to anybody’s full record anymore and when I did, I don’t think I listened to the whole record. I’m sorry, and I don’t care who it is, if it’s the Beatles, I can’t listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that’s just my personal preference.
There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn’t very rebellious.
The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
Two things I’m obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you’ll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I’ve listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
That’s what music has always been to me: a feel. I’ve listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.
Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn’t necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable.
From a small market, nobody had heard of me. ESPN had guts, they had courage, they rolled the dice. A guy flew into Portland, we got a rare snowstorm, he was stuck there four days, John McConnell listened to me, and he recommended me.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother’s advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
I haven’t listened to much music lately; I’ve been out of it.
I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ – Jeff Buckley’s cover is usually my go-to song.
I really only had one audition in my life, and that was when I was 14 or 15. When I was that young, I listened to what my teachers would say, like wearing a certain kind of leotard that you’ll be noticed in.
I listened to a lot of Jay Z and Nas, stuff like that, so I was always New York-influenced. I think I have that New York flow.
When I was growing up, I was really into comedy. I listened to a lot of comedy albums. I loved Richard Pryor, but the comic that had the most impact on me was always my brother Chris, who was in the next room. It was tangible. If Chris could make it, I could try.
If you read every newspaper or listened to every radio station and behaved as if your life depended on that, then you would be in an emotional turmoil. Essentially, you have to stay true to yourself. That is enough.
‘I Just Might Pray’ by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. ‘I Just Might Pray’ is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for ‘I Just Might Pray’ is absolutely adorable.
I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.
When I fell in love with music, particularly hip-hop, I listened to it in the car. In Texas, you’ve got to drive, and sometimes you wanna listen to something good. Not something that’s loud with a bunch of screaming for two minutes. That’s a different type of music.
I remember very vividly what it’s like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you when you spoke and gave you time to say what you wanted to say and actually listened, and quite often reacted as a result of what you’d said.
When I was a kid I mainly listened to comedy albums.
Dad was an outstanding leader. He’d bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields – how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn’t have been a success.
I listened to Korn and Limp Bizkit and that whole era of heavy music.
‘What’s Going On’ is one of the greatest albums ever made. I definitely wasn’t aiming to make my ‘What’s Going On,’ you know what I mean? That album is definitely deep in my DNA. I’ve probably listened to that more than maybe any other album ever in my entire life.
I don’t know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.
Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it’s very rich… it’s got a wide spectrum.
I never listened to people who said I wasn’t going to make it.
Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.
I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I’m just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the ’60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it’s from another era.
If we’re not listened to, then that doesn’t create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don’t value it.
If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan.
I always said I got my music from my dad, but my mom had these cassettes – Bjoerk and the Cocteau Twins and the Talking Heads. That was her music, and she would just get so wild and free when she listened to it.
I’ve always had opinions on what was going on in my community. I always knew a lot of people listened to me, so why don’t I speak on police brutality and things like that?
At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.
I’m like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black American R&B singers. My speaking voice is something else. It’s what my mum and dad taught me.
People on ‘The Incredibles’ would ask me if I listened to a lot of spy scores, but no, I don’t.
When it comes to dance hall music, I definitely listened to a lot of Vybz Kartel growing up or Gyptian and Mavado.
Maybe I’ll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I’ve listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
My dad listened to a load of jazz – Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.
It’s wonderful for me to see what ‘We Will Rock You’ has done. ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are the Champions’ have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated – they’ve become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.
There was this guy I used to work with, and he listened to Patsy Cline all the time, so I liked that after a while.
I try to be real positive because I know I’m being listened to, and I have a responsibility.
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it’s taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.
In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it’s pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I’ve always listened to him.
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I’m grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.
I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.
That’s the way I always listened to music. I’d listen and copy it. I play by ear so that’s easier than reading.
Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.
I never listened to country music growing up.
I didn’t grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It’s not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don’t really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I’d done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O’Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to – I hated women pop singers.
