#listening

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#doing #else #i #into #listening

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. ↗

— John Guare

#always #ballet #body #city #how

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. ↗

— William Hague

#children #communicating #competition #dirty #elitist

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#clark #dave #five #funky #going

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. ↗

— Colin Hay

#cut #difficult #frustrating #just #listening

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#diana ross #experience #got #grew #her

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at! ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#beautiful #beautiful music #being #camera #front

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music. ↗

— James Iha

#end #even #fan #i #listening

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#gauge #i #i think #listening #mind