Listening Intently Quotes

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

Taking your time with music is real important to me.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

I'd rather you listen to my music with a confused face, you know? Rather than you just hearing a good flow to a good beat.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

I live out in the country in Scotland and know that if I close my eyes, I can recognise every sound.

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

When I've had to edit my albums, I'll listen to it one time through, and I'll make edits. I want to remember to set up a camera to record myself listening to my set, because I don't even slightly crack a smile, I am just listening for technical details, and I look like somebody that has absolutely no sense of humor. I look insane.

I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.

I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music.

Sometimes you can listen to a song all your life without hearing it.