The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.