#listen

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. ↗

— Slash

#aerosmith #black #black sabbath #came #cheap

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#effect #happy #hope #i #i always

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#listening #relaxation #storytelling #art

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#grew #i #listening #little #more

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. ↗

— Ed Cunningham

#listening #friendship

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#friendship #gentle #listening #reaching-out #sheltered

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #mellow #sarah-dessen #life

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly. ↗

— Sting

#big problem #either #i #like #listen

Music's a powerful thing. A song can change your mood. Make a memory. One song can change your whole life. ↗

— Kent Moran

#change

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

— Stephen R. Covey

#change