#listening

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#advise #anything #coach #else #just

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#because #changes #clever #complex #deceptively

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

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

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#boom #constantly #ear #frankly #i

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dark #dark side #listening #music #nature

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

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. ↗

— Ben Harper

#folk #grew #i #johnson #listening

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical. ↗

— Ben Harper

#classical music #compose #different #different things #eventually