I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break. – Chris Stapleton
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music. – Action Bronson
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you – you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What’s the pleasure of it that’s moving you forward, that’s pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward? – Ira Glass
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don’t want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work. – Anna Deavere Smith
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. – Barry Goldwater
I’m a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to ’83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow. – Adam McKay
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger. – Casey Affleck
I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‘Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.’ – Brian Eno
As athletes, we love to say, ‘Just one more; I’m going to figure it out on this next one.’ It’s tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more. – Ashton Eaton
In singing, you cannot ‘cheat’ if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell. – Andrea Bocelli
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won’t even remember me. – Ahmet Ertegun
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don’t move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. – Bill Laswell
I think with me and the type of music that I’m trying to make, it’s always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls. – Charlie Puth
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records… we went and watched ballet and orchestras – lots of cool stuff. Which I’m really grateful for – it’s pretty nice being introduced to that when you’re little. – Courtney Barnett
It was by listening to Goodman’s band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. – Alvin Lee
How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I’m listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That’s what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying. – Amy Grant
Well, Babyface brings his savoir faire to every project. He’s a very easy producer to work with, very detailed in listening to everything. – Aretha Franklin
My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to – Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang – was coming out of New York. I’m just into it. – Bryan Greenberg
Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering. – A. A. Milne
When you’re a creative person, there are just times when you’re not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else. – Brad Paisley
I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven’t heard before. It’s a very healthy thing to do. It’s strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you’re listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I’m serious. Listen to your radio station. – Alvin Lee
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It’s on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. – Bill Cosby
There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I’d want to kick my own ass. – Adam Brody
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you’re listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing… You’re really trying to emulate them, then you realize, ‘I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.’ – Alex Borstein
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I’ve grown up listening to all kinds of music. – Avicii