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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.
Im a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
Culturally, I remember listening to Salil Chowdhury's music for Malayalam films. Many Bengali actors have worked in our films, too.
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
Theres a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.
Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.
There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.
I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience.
My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.
You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.
More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn't ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort of stumbled into it.
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.
Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.
A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.
I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.
Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.
What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.
I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.