I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.