Listening Quotes

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

I listen to Frank Sinatra before my fight a lot, and I also listen to Orisha music, so both of those, I need, it’s weird. It’s a weird combination.

Listen, someone’s screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

We just play whatever we’re into. For a while there, we weren’t listening to too much rap stuff, ’cause there wasn’t anything interesting.

The world knew it couldn’t break you unless you listened to it talking shit thought and broke yourself.

Half the time I feel like I’m talking to the wall because you don’t react at all and then the shock comes when I begin to scream that I just want somebody to listen to me.

Helping begins with listening.

If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter