Listeners Quotes - Page 16

• A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Music, Art, Laughing

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• Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Bridges

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it. I studied diction, breathing control, phrasing, why the song means something. You want to bring that across to your listeners.

  Ledisi

  Song, Grateful, Mean

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• I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.

  Jonathan Meades

  Art, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

  Steve Martin

  Ideas, Interesting, Stories

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• Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, America, People

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• I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.

  Bradford Cox

  People, Feelings, Mind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

  Richard Branson

  Leader, Listening, Good Listener

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jun 19, 2012

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• Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

  E. B. White

  Mind, Stories, Mystery

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  Yolanda Adams

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

  Adam Schein

  Kids, Swimming, Thinking

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• [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

  Walker Percy

  Art, Communication, Feelings

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• What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Bores, Speakers

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• Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Quality, Needs, Excellent

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• Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.

  Jacques Ellul

  Information, Messages, Propaganda

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• Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

  Allan Kozinn

  Museums, Hands, Orchestra

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• Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

  Miles Davis

  Sweet, Girlfriend, Real

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.

  Vincent Canby

  Stars, Uncles, House

  Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin (1999). “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made”, Three Rivers Press

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• I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

  J Tillman

  Song, Intention, Not Interested

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Fate, Organization, Ideas

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• Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

  Karl Barth

  Littles, Venture, Subjectivity

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• People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Two, People, Attention

  "John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 17, 1990.

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• At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that are on my album will be loved by the pop listeners and the R&B songs will be loved by the R&B people. I think that each song has a broad enough sound that I won't be pigeon holed. At the same time I think it is appealing to many different audiences.

  Chrisette Michele

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Chrisette Michele: Unifying Music". Singersroom Interview, singersroom.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Powerful, Influence, Storyteller

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

  Elijah Wood

  Dream, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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