Listening Quotes

My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

Please, don’t listen all the hate and take a little break to fall in love with you.

Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.