Listening Quotes - Page 34

• Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Gossip, Rumor, Noses

  Stephen L. Carter (2007). “New England White”, Knopf

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• As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

  Greil Marcus

  Powerful, Writing, Earthquakes

  "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.

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• At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.

  Luigi Russolo

  Art, Rome, Ideas

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• The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

  M. Ward

  Song, Opportunity, Light

  Interview with Bob Boilen, www.npr.org. November 17, 2006.

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• I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Crazy, Meditation, Mind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

  James Taylor

  People, Quality, Littles

  "James Taylor: Streaming businesses should pay artists half". Associated Press Interview, www.azcentral.com. June 19, 2015.

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• When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.

  William J. Clinton

  Doors, Feel Good, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.

  Donnie Simpson

  Age, Ears, Radio

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Fired Up and Emoting on the State of Politics, and More". The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 31, 2004.

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• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Waffles, Able, Should

  "Sonic Evolution With the Use of Tool". Boston Globe, November 15, 1996.

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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Reading, Writing, Light

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• As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

  Preston Manning

  Father, School, Training

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.

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• For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

  Andy Partridge

  Song, Rain, Heart

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• Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

  Connie Willis

  Tired, People, Matter

  Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra

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• Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Home, People

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• You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

  Tucker Max

  Couple, Cat, Night

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.219, Citadel

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• The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

  Gao Xingjian

  Needs, Language, Existence

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• So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Breathing, Aggravation, Waiting

  Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

  Dana Gioia

  Special, Way, Dogma

  "Paradigms Lost", interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Spring 1995.

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• I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.

  Hope Partlow

  Country, Rocks, Cds

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• Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

  Paul Laseau

  Reading, Writing, Creativity

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• When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

  Dave Soldier

  Mean, Elephants, Hearing

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• I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Voice, Different

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Children, Reading, Kids

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