Listening Quotes

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.

It’s not about what you’re saying, it’s about how you listen.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.

I thought I’d spent too much of my life listening for some damn man – for my father and now for my husband.

When I rap, it’s just an extension of how I speak, and that’s how I talk. If you don’t like it, don’t listen.

Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?