“The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.” FeelsKidsAmericaCausesWalksMiddleListeningMusic IsHearingMallsNew MusicMiddle America Author:Ester Dean
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.” KnowsBigsSeemsAmericaYoungWhiteRecordsPlayerBrotherListeningBandJazzSouthSingersMy BrotherSouth AfricaDukesSaxophoneKittiesNinaVocalistJazz BandRecord Players Author:Miriam Makeba
“I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantImportantShowsActionAmericaPresidentListeningConcernImportant Things Author:Trent Lott
“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.” FactsAmericaSongCultureReadingVisionListeningSurprisingBobMultipleAngleShiftingThrillingDylanAmerican CultureSean Author:Martin Scorsese
“I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.” ChildrenTogetherAmericaMotherFatherWatchesMiddleListeningSummerRaisesSouthWinterCyclesVacationAprilNestsJust ListenMother And FatherSouth AmericaMonogamous RelationshipOspreys Author:Alan Lightman
“When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.” ShowsAmericaCoursesGamesListeningLaughterSpeedVideoSmokingPotBusMetalsBrianMr Show Author:David Cross
“We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in Flint] - it was almost impossible for me to believe that I was listening to people in the United States of America in the year 2016.” PeopleYearsBelieveLittlesStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesImpossibleHeardListeningMeetingsUnited States Of America Author:Hillary Clinton
“The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.” PeopleKnowsIdeasPhilosophyAmericaSongLostHalfTalkingGenerationsFansPossibilityListeningDaughterCriticsLikesEmbeddedLost Generation Author:Saul Williams
“I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the path America is on, we have got to be fighting for policies not that benefit the giant corporations and the banks and the special interests and the lobbyists, which is what Washington focuses on every day, but instead every policy needs to focus on the working men and women, the truck drivers and the steelworkers, and the young people.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenNeedsAmericaYoungFightingInterestPathFocusSpecialPolicyHe ManListeningPoliticianBenefitsMen And WomenCorporationsGiantsDriversTruckSpecial InterestsLobbyistsWorking ManTruck Driver Author:Ted Cruz
“God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?” CountryAmericaListening Author:Reese Witherspoon