#listening

Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations." "How do you know? -- how can you guess all this, sir?" "I know it well; therefore I proceed almost as freely as if I were writing my thoughts in a diary. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life

If you'd just learn to do as I say from the beginning, I wouldn't have to follow up your errors with reproving smirks and repeated 'I told you so's. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#listening #richelle #richelle-goodrich #humor

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. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#again #bad #bands #cover #hearing

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

— Jerry Reed

#earth #hard #listening #most #most powerful

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. ↗

— Lou Reed

#best #compass #else #i #idea

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. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#five #floor #four #headphones #i

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#listening #make #more #much #observation

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#cover #ears #eyes #listening #music

Never stop listening to your audience. ↗

— David Copperfield

#listening #never #never stop #stop #your

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#big #big band #classical #grew #i