I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.
The only way to love a person is. . . by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.
I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.
I really like listening to music in my car.
You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles. . . They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.
I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.
To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.