If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

In my other work as a self-defense instructor, I have taught the importance of listening to one's gut instincts.

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

I'm a nationalist and populist.

I don't just listen to rap.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like, 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

I grew up listening to dappan koothu songs and loved the fun party vibes they gave.

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

I Iike listening to people talking. I'm really interested in people's lives and what makes us work, what makes us weak, at times, and things that can make us stronger.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

If anyone will listen I will continue to sing.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.