Listening Quotes

Helping begins with listening.

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

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna’s Immaculate Collection every day

Let me listen to me and not to them.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.