Top 575 Hear Quotes

Even now I doubt myself. I don’t understand what people hear in my voice. I can’t hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
Sam Smith
There are some showrunners who run their room like dictators, from what I hear.
Brendan Hunt
It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
Phil McGraw
I used to hear people say nobody can prepare you for fame, and it’s actually very true. But there is such beauty that comes with it when you’re able to use your platform in a positive way.
Jussie Smollett
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.
Charlie Puth
Hear only the things you should hear – be deaf to others.
Ford Frick
Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
Angela Robinson
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read ‘The Four Agreements’, you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
Don Miguel Ruiz
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn
Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.
Kenan Thompson
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
Dick Cavett
Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau
It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it’s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
Richard Morris
It’s always nice to hear people say, ‘You sound the same,’ when I know I don’t.
Johnny Mathis
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day – go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists’ job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf
Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you’re in trouble, and you can’t hear what they are saying.
Margaret Trudeau
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
Elvis Costello
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
Jim Hightower
I know when somebody’s heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
Ariel Pink
Don’t believe everything you hear on the street.
Ernie Isley
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don’t.
Earl Wilson
My parents were just constantly affirming me in everyth

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‘You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.’
Stephen Covey
How do you project a character if you don’t have a sense of where she is from? I’ve always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
Cicely Tyson
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken
I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear – I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
Lydia Lunch
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
King Krule
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
John Perry Barlow
I think I’m decisive, and I like to get things done quickly. So if that comes across as intimidation, I’m sorry to hear it. But it’s more in the interest of getting things done.
Anna Wintour
I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she’s breaking her silence, my heart stops.
Nicolle Wallace
When most of us hear the phrase, ‘survival of the fittest,’ we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn’t exist anywhere in Darwin’s first edition of ‘Origin of the Species.’
Joel A. Barker
I want you to hear from God. God already spoke to me what I’m going to write out. You’re going to write your checks to Paula White Ministries. If God tells you to give $12.99, do it. Whatever the Holy Spirit speaks to you. If you need to give by credit card, do so.
Paula White
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
Tom Wopat
I think the truth is most people don’t want to hear about policy. They want to hear, ‘I understand what you’re going through, and you can trust me to fight for you and what you care about.’ But we can do both – fight for policy and resonate with people at the same time.
Katie Hill
You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.
Zayn Malik
It’s really weird when we’re out of the country, whether we’re in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you’re in a different country, it’s really freaky and surreal.
Gary Rossington
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren
When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.
Courtney Hadwin
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, ‘I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?’ It turned out to be me, of course.
Leon Russell
Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else’s injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn’t hurt?
Peyton Manning
Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
Lillie Langtry
We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that should have learned the lesson.
Ayelet Shaked
There’s a lot of steps between there not being music and there being music. Composition is one part of that, but if no one performs it… It’s like if a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Chris Thile
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.
Niccolo Paganini
Every time I hear that Champions League song, it reminds me of hearing it for the first time in the old Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
Edwin van der Sar
I had between 20 and 40 songs for ‘Detox,’ and I just couldn’t feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I’m going, but I wasn’t able to do that. I wasn’t feeling it in my gut.
Dr. Dre
There are people who want to hear what they consider your hits. There are people who want you to experiment and explore random, rare things. And it’s kind of a different; they’re two different beasts.
Aaron Dessner
I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn’t matter to me that he’d already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
Patti Davis
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn’t hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
Jacob Bronowski
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He’d take me in his car. I’d hear Carlos Santana. I’d hear Queen. I’d hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
Action Bronson
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Unknown
The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.
Alice Coltrane
I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that’s important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.
Al Roker
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
Barbra Streisand
I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren’t actors who have a rough time, too, and I don’t know if the ratio is any different.
Johnny Crawford