All Quotes

If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
‐‐ Darlene Love

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
‐‐ Roscoe Mitchell

If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
‐‐ Don McLean

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
‐‐ Bill Laswell

If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.
‐‐ Jim Ed Brown

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
‐‐ Barry McGuire

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
‐‐ Stefon Harris

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
‐‐ Flea

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

If you live around dummies and fake blood for six months, it becomes a part of you. It's fake blood, but sometimes I still feel the real scent of blood, so it's more mentally collapsing, not only physical.
‐‐ Min-sik Choi

If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.
‐‐ Jason David Frank

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
‐‐ Gail Collins

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
‐‐ Emily Procter

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood - in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends - do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.
‐‐ Douglas Feith

If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment.
‐‐ Honeysuckle Weeks

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
‐‐ Alvin Ailey

If you live in the mountains, you long for the trees and the lakes.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.
‐‐ Tracy Kidder

If you live in the States, you have to join a gym.
‐‐ Roger Rees

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
‐‐ George Halas

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
‐‐ Robert Torricelli

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
‐‐ Jeff Rich

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
‐‐ George Burns

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
‐‐ Dale Murphy

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
‐‐ Herta Muller

If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it - it's not that dramatic, it's just a bit, kind of, 'Here we go, this is what we're doing today. This is sad. But we're gonna get through it.'
‐‐ Josh Thomas