The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
My job isn’t to fix or rescue or to save. It’s to accompany, see people, listen to them.
Usually, when we write in The B-52s, it’s quite a collaborative process. We really take hours – and sometimes days – jamming, and then we listen and listen to them and go, ‘Oh, let’s use this part, and then this part.’ It’s really like a collage.
Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of ’80s and ’90s pop music.
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.
I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.
I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you’ll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, ‘Listen, I’m a Christian, and I’m not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that’s what grace is all about.’
They’re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to ‘The Chronic,’ there’s flute solos and everything. It’s always been there.
Listen with your eyes for feelings.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‘cluh-CLICK-click.’ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.
I believe that I exist for the people. I’m just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.
The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially ‘In My Room’ and ‘Don’t Worry Baby.’ There’s something really sad about ‘Don’t Worry Baby.’ Even though it’s just a California song about racing cars, the melody is really sad. There’s melancholy in it.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That’s the attitude you have to have.
Since I train instinctively and listen to my body, I have no set routine. I very much train by feel.
Curiosity at work isn’t a matter of style. It’s much more powerful than that. If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You’re letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
I only listen to Lil Wayne.
It’s the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
If I’m trying to get into character and it’s an emotional scene, I’ll listen to depressing or really sad music.
Music is designed to be listened to, so it’s calling for attention all the time, syphoning off our very limited auditory bandwidth and elbowing aside our ability to listen to the voice in our head we need when we’re doing mental work.
It’s the most exciting thing to watch God work when I’ve asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It’s like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries – that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other – then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
I don’t know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it’s made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
You have to respectfully listen to advice.
I don’t have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Don’t listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
There’s some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
It’s always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion – if not for compassion’s sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they’ll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it’s safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
So it’s the kind of business where you can’t wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what’s on the news, and you know, how the world’s going to change.
When the movie’s done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He’d listen to the quartets.
I don’t like confrontation. I don’t care about it. If someone tries it with me, they will be talking to themselves because I don’t listen.
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
I don’t listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.
I don’t listen to electronic music at home.
‘Routine’ was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to ‘Happy Returns,’ and you can tell it’s definitely been written on guitar, with that singer-songwriter-y strumming quality.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
Popular Monster’ is the voice inside my head, hoping you will listen. It’s the story of a hero that’s been falsely accused and torn down by society. It shows what happens when you get pushed too far.
My education as a film composer, you can’t not – if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a symphonist like I am – you can’t not listen to John Williams’ work.
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
An audience shouldn’t listen with complacency.
