#listening

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#facing #i #i think #listening #now

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#because #been #get #good #i

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#enjoy #i #listening #long #play

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#began #best #black #black music #class

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#audience #earned #found #giving #grew

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#bass #bear #because #electric #first

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#daddy #girl #had #him #i

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #listening #long #music #rock

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#big #big difference #conversation #difference #exactly