Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

- Buddy DeFranco

Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.

- Casey Wilson

He listens well who takes notes.

- Dante Alighieri

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

- Danielle Dax

Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

- Gael Garcia Bernal

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

- George Jean Nathan

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

- Jean Cocteau

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

- Jean de La Fontaine

Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.

- James McBride

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

- Mignon McLaughlin

There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.

- Rodney Frelinghuysen

I want to be a mom who listens.

- Tori Spelling

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

- Trent Lott