When I’m getting ready, I’ll listen to ’80s music on Spotify just to wake me up and put me in the mood. I like that it’s cheesy. – Julia Restoin Roitfeld
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I’ve not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony. – Joshua Bell
Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, ‘It’s OK. It’s music to drive to.’ But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie. – Betty Wright
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone’s going to want to listen to that, but it should exist. – Beck
Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going. – Action Bronson
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. – Campbell Brown
The album ‘Cheers to the Fall’ is really kind of me breaking out and being like, ‘Listen, I don’t care about criticism, and I don’t care about possibility of failure. I’m going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here’s to it.’ – Andra Day
My grandparents don’t really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music. – Becky G
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up. – Bob Schieffer
I listen to NPR when I listen to the radio, but I don’t listen to the radio that much. You know, I listen to Garrison Keillor, I listen to ‘Prairie Home Companion.’ – Al Franken
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for – sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm. – Andre Kostelanetz
I’ve tried to pitch ‘Borgen – the Musical,’ but they just won’t listen to me! – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
I just felt like I’d rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music. – Brian Posehn
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. – Amy Bloom
I found a sound that people really liked – I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they’re quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry. – Buck Owens
I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn’t want. – Britt Ekland
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. – Antonio Damasio
If people don’t know who you are, they’re not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN. – Aaron Schock
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday. – Barbra Streisand
I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it. – Chris Stapleton