#listening

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #create #hear #i #knack

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#allow #audience #form #four #happen

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#fast #him #hubert #humphrey #like

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#both #god #listening #meditation #piano

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#doing #else #i #into #listening

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. ↗

— John Guare

#always #ballet #body #city #how

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. ↗

— William Hague

#children #communicating #competition #dirty #elitist

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#clark #dave #five #funky #going

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#asleep #books #cartoons #comic #comic books