Listening Quotes

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people’s music.

When you take a lover who uncovers all your flaws, listens to the very essence of who you are and embraces you rather than judges you, hold on to this love for a lifetime, as you will never find a love quite as pure.

Hear much; speak little.

I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events … me going to concerts and saying “I think I can do that”.

Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It’s like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people’s concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

Listeners are kind of ambushed… if a poem just happens to be said when they’re listening to the radio. The listener doesn’t have time to deploy what I call their ‘poetry deflector shields’ that were installed in high school – there’s little time to resist the poem.