If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

I'm not a materialistic person.

Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

Always be listening and learning.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

I am a journalist.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Listen, if anyone knows Aleister Black, it's me.

I put a lot of trust in my stylist, Micaela Erlanger.

Damian Lewis is a consummate professional. He is kind. He's compassionate. He's able to engage in real conversation when we're not rolling, and then, the minute we're rolling, he's totally present and reacting truthfully in the moment and listening.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

You've got to be realistic.

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff.

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.