#listening

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. ↗

— Tom Waits

#go #learn #listening #made #make

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. ↗

— Tom Waits

#better #going #gone #hope #like

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#got #i #listening #quiet #start

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#filming #i #leonard #listening #lot

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us? ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#honour #left #listening #nobody #us

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#downloading #find #frightening #internet #like

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on! ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#high-speed #leading #like #listening #nothing

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ↗

— Buddha

#dislike #evil #fear #feeling #feelings

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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