#listening

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 enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#home #i #just #listen #listening

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

— Michelle Williams

#filming #i #leonard #listening #lot

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

— Bill Wyman

#i #listening #long #music #rock

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

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#anybody #between #body #child #diverting

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

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born. ↗

— Benny Green

#almost #born #called #day #dream

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

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#great #listening #wagner #which