#listen

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#always #any #bad #big #family

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. ↗

— David Amram

#bach #being #chorale #four #going

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.' ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#boys and girls #different #hot #i #listen

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#another #back #encourage #good #good news

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#because #could #ear #feel #good

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#feel #how #i #i think #learn

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. ↗

— Bobby Hatfield

#come #gonna #just #listening #lot

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cinema #doing #each #ever #how

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

— Jill Scott

#grade #i #listening #more #practice