Listeners Quotes - Page 25

• Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ...
  - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated,
  - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sound, Adults

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

  Horace

  Mind, Enough, Charm

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

  Nils Frahm

  Hurt, Piano, Important

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• Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cost, Flattery, Flattered

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Talking, Two, People

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• I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.

  Dave Koz

  Talking, Collaboration, Ears

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

  Erin McKeown

  Sound, Range, Wide

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

  Brad Listi

  Jobs, Talking, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.

  Faris Badwan

  People, Important, Want

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• There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it.

  Greg James

  Taken, Giving, Energy

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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• I don't release many records just as "Fennesz," so when I do, I want to plan everything in detail. It's not that I want to really lead the listener somewhere; it's more about me being satisfied with a project.

  Christian Fennesz

  Details, Records, Want

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Writing, Kind, Curious

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.

  James Hunter

  Song, Cinema, Nudge

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

  Doreen Virtue

  Writing, Listening, Hearing

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• I love good momentum. It makes everybody happy and in this time that we're living in, especially musically speaking, if you can make a record that has more than 4 or 5 songs deep and it has a good variety of songs. You don't frontload it with those first couple of songs. You continue the record taking the listener on a journey, musically speaking. I think you've really got something there.

  Charlie Benante

  Song, Couple, Journey

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

  Charlie Benante

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.

  Cody Johnson

  Country, Song, Rocks

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• I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put together because today, anything is fair game. As far as I'm concerned, my own common practice is a piece that engages the attention of listeners from beginning to end, and doesn't rely on or expect the listener to zone out.

  Paul Lansky

  Practice, Games, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Logic, Open Minded

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.

  Jacob Bannon

  Art, Long, Understanding

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Chicago, Degrees

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

  Carl Orr

  Musician, Majority, Failing

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• I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

  Joe Budden

  Artist, Listening, May

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.

  Susan Sarandon

  School, Different, Debt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would say to the people of Queensland, and to all listeners around the country, is that if you want stable government in the next term of parliament, it's not just enough to reelect the [Malcolm] Turnbull government. It's also important to elect a senate which will be able to deal with the important reforms, with the important legislation, in a way in which the senate in the last parliament was unable to deal with.

  George Brandis

  Country, Government, People

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