All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

- Alan Rickman

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

- Andrea Bocelli

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

- Andrea Bocelli

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

- Andrea Bocelli

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

- Andrea Bocelli

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

- Alicia Keys

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

- Alice Cooper

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

- Alice Cooper

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

- Albert Ellis

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

- Alanis Morissette

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

- A. A. Milne

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

- Alan Alda

I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.

- Al Sharpton

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

- Adele

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

- Adam McKay

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

- Action Bronson

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

- Action Bronson

Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

- Action Bronson

Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.

- Action Bronson

I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

- Action Bronson