Listening Quotes - Page 31

• Casually mount the sounds
  and straddle the colors
  while you transcend listening
  and surpass watching.  

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Color, Sound

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• I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

  Steven Sater

  Rocks, House, Records

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they've heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn't even know they wanted.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Needs, Winner

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• The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Talking, People, Young

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• Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

  Alan Lewis

  Next, Chance, Assuming

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• You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

  Elvis Costello

  Waiting, Painting, Sophisticated

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mother, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.

  Girl Talk

  Hunting, Car, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.

  Girl Talk

  College, One Day, Band

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.

  David Byrne

  Phones, Play, Ipods

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 22, 2008.

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• When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Character, Creating

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

  Judd Apatow

  Brother, Kids, Want

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Important, Things I Love

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.

  Jenny Hval

  People, Singing, Body

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

  Jenny Hval

  Alternatives, Alternative Music, Generic

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Tired, Shopping, Ipods

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

  Missy Elliot

  Kids, Sound, Gauges

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Writing, People

  Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Teenager, Thinking, Band

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

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• It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Nice, People, Appreciate

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• Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Song, Rain, Home

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• To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Masters, Sells

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• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Beach, Yoga, Long Walks

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