Listeners Quotes - Page 12

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  Oliver North

  Military, Mean, Names

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, People, Political

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• The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

  Christine Pelosi

  Jocks, Shock, Free Market

  "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Thinking, Emotional

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• Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

  Lou Reed

  Challenges, Should, Notion

  "I met Lou Reed - and he was charm personified" by Hanna Hanra, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I'm more of a listener than a talker.

  Norman Reedus

  Talkers

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• The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

  Lawrence Welk

  Sister, Girl, Years

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Clever, People, Culture

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Inspiration, Jazz

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• If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

  Vince Staples

  Trying, Might, Like You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.

  Kate Tempest

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

  "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.

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• All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

  Richard Adams

  People, Enemy, Warning

  "Watership Down". www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

  Doug Walters

  Artist, Discovery, Broken

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.

  Trentemøller

  Writing, Littles, Surprise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

  Wynonna Judd

  Successful, Connections, World

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• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Personality, Desire

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• Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Albums, Want, Ballads

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, www.outclique.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Green, Littles

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Way, Tongue

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• be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Judging, Boundaries

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

  Walt Disney

  Mind, Patient, Stubbornness

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• Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

  Wynton Marsalis

  Musician, Firsts, Music Is

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• History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, People, Desire

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• To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

  Jean Craighead George

  Writing, People, Problem

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