When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid. '
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.
I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.
The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure. "
My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,' I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody. '
When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?
It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if. . . but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there.
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.
The question was, have you heard from anyone on the [Donald] Trump transition team? We have not been contacted.
When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
I sing My Way, I say this to the whole country, "Well, the President of Estonia sent me a message. " He heard about it because of what's happening in Russia right now and the power grab that [Vladimir] Putin has.
I heard an angel speak last nightAnd he said, "Write!"
But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it.
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.
I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.