Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us..

The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment..

I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening ….

People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen….

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have l….

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to….

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds..

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment..

If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say….

Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or w….

When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt t….

The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to….

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, wha….

There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then y….

I wanted to find a way to speak for people. It was important for me, because so many people spoke for me when I was a kid and made me feel less invis….

"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature her life isn't much heard. F….

Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, b….

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad..

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level..

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of e….