#listening

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

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#america #any #broadcast #get #happening

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

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#doing #just #learn #listening #much

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#elements #important #listening #most #performing

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,...is finally the most inward of acts--so inward that even language, even the language of thought, can come to seem intrusive...After all these procedures the unbreachable mysteriousness of music remains intact. The book can never be more than an interruption. Afterward, the listening begins again, to generate, in turn, other and completely different books. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#listening #music #philosophy #imagination

I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are... ↗

— Betty Berzon

#love #love

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change