You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.
I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
The teacher is the only one worth listening to.
What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you hear everything about them in those moments. They reveal themselves in ways that cannot be revealed any other way, and it contains historical truths because of that. To me, that is the most important thing. It shouldn't be a footnote, or the last chapter. It should be the complete thesis about a book on listening.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit. " I like to argue with the radio.
The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.
I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.
Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.
What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me. . . and go on living without me.
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening
For listening to the stories of others. . . is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.
I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.