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"I'm listening to a lot of Drake, and a lot of Frank Sinatra just because it's his centennial also. I'm going to be doing some tributes to him this year. I love that Beck album. It was funny to me because my two favorite albums of the year were definitely the Beyonce album and the Beck album."
"When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus."
"Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating."
"God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions."
"I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to."
"Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them."
"I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening."
"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream."
"God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening."
"My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up."
"Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry."
"The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking."
"I think it's pretty dynamic. There's a lot of energy there and life, and you'll have women dressed in their traditional African dress when they come, and you have people from all over the place, and some people have headphones on because they're listening in Spanish."
"Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes."
"When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen."
"You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes."
"The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it."
"It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing."
"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."
"I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear."
