Listeners Quotes - Page 10

Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of listeners, which is great, but on the other hand they start to pigeonhole you a little bit.

Tracey Thorn

Hands, Littles, Trouble

Source: thequietus.com

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Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the form of subs and ads, but they are a core part of our donor community; 10 percent give us a donation on top of their subscription; that's about the same rate as NPR gets from its listeners.

Clara Jeffery

Mother, Npr, Giving

Source: www.politico.com

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You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

Reggie Watts

Fun, Thinking, Jokes

Source: www.avclub.com

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... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

Roald Dahl

Mind, Spells, Hypnotic

Roald Dahl (2012). “Switch Bitch”, p.9, Penguin

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I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

John Steinbeck

Liars, Lying, Loss

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

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...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Milan Kundera

Art, Media, Opaque

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It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

Paul Neilan

Mean, Night, Talking

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The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

Dale Carnegie

Kings, Kickers, Poison

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Madeleine Albright

Talking, Active, Knows

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When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Visionaries, Oracles, World

"Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

James Fenton

Small Numbers, Ideas, Example

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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Dave Grohl

Hands, Songwriting, Extending

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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Thinking

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If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Darrell Issa

Media, Fewer, Five

"Don't look back" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Kelly Jones

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I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Anthony Kiedis

Thinking, Inspired, Method

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I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

Ashton Kutcher

Compliment, Someday, Going To Work

"Ashton Kutcher: I Couldn’t Be With a Woman Who 'Needed to Change Me'". Women's Health Interview, www.usmagazine.com. November 18, 2011.

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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Hedy Lamarr

Thinking, Talking, Names

Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

Jon Landau

Frustration, Rolling, Nerves

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Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

Life Lesson, Giving, Imagination

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Andrew Cuomo

Long, Politician, Good Listener

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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

Tori Amos

Song, Sound, Might

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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

Erykah Badu

World, Needs, Underestimate

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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

Travis Barker

Boys, Play, Listening

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Jacqueline Bisset

Acting, Needs, Lines

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