Listeners Quotes - Page 5

• An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorrow

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• I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.

  Serj Tankian

  Powerful, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.

  Fergie

  Dirty, Air, Space

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Hard Times, Thinking, Listening

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Artist, Parent, Honor

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary barrier between themselves and the listener or they simply wont be heard.

  Josh Garrels

  Song, Artist, Creating

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Single Mom, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

  Bob Edwards

  Perfect, Different, Littles

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• With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

  Bob Edwards

  Radio

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• Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

  Bob Edwards

  Thinking, Dry Up, Organization

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• When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Song, Art, Impact

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• If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

  M. Scott Peck

  Levels, Want, Language

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Trying, Exhausted

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.

  David Byrne

  Song, Thinking, Two

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

  PJ Harvey

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Optimistic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

  Ben Folds

  Divorce, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

  Henry Taylor

  Listening Ear, Soul, Ears

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• I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

  Bob Edwards

  Talking, Elements, Excited

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• Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

  Will Hobbs

  Writing, Stories, Accord

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.

  Taylor Ho Bynum

  Responsibility, Records, Want

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• I'm a big vinyl listener, I'm a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi and really nice turntable and it's a big deal to me to listen to music in it's purest form like that.

  Butch Walker

  Nice, Home, Vinyl

  Source: www.soundscapemagazine.com

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• The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

  Dessa Darling

  Artist, Views, Support

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• What else is soul but a listener?

  William H. Gass

  Soul, Listening

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• I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

  Barbara Walters

  Art, Women, People

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• I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Regret, Silence, World

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