#listening

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#enjoy #enjoyment #ensemble #everyone #front

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#active #bottom #bottom line #by the time #get

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. ↗

— John James Audubon

#best way #birds #could #day #gave

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#court #disaster #forces #gods #listening

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#anatomy #band #classic #examine #grew

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#aretha franklin #artists #been #different #franklin

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ↗

— Doug Larson

#get #lifetime #listening #preferred #reward

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#ambient #deep #find #finished #hours

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#i #into #listening #skateboarder #ted

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#began #coleman #first #hawkins #i