“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.” WayTryingBitsConsciousnessEnemyListeningHip HopHipsContradictionHopsDiverseExploringRealisedSamplingPublic EnemiesHip Hop Music Author:Chris Ofili
“The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.” FeelsBitsListeningStonesJewelsJohnsonHarperInstrumentationDido Author:Tammin Sursok
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top of an oilrig, fighting with politicians, or whatever - you need a bit of wisdom to realize that you're not always right, or that you're not always being reasonable, or you're not always listening.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsFightingBitsRealizingListeningPoliticianCalmWho I AmReasonableIrrelevantReally Happy Author:Nick Offerman
“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.” PeopleFirstsLittlesPersonsMadeStillsCountryBitsRocksBrotherListeningGrewLittle BitGrew UpMovedMusicalGenreRock N RollConfusingChuckBerriesHybridEverly Brothers Author:Teddy Thompson
“I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsRememberBitsClassTeacherListeningLittle BitSittingBeing A Teacher Author:Rick Riordan
“As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.” DifferentRunningBitsWonderPiecesStyleListeningWideHillsSpectrumCarpenterJustinDifferent StylesBits And Pieces Author:Brooklyn Sudano
“When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative.” PeopleFeelsTryingBitsBlackHappenedListeningShotsHatsCall MeRudePleasersBlack Hats Author:Liz W. Garcia
“I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all around me. It can drive my partner bonkers a little bit. But it's about being able to tell a lot of very different stories as well as you can and I do genuinely love what I do.” IfsWellsLittlesI CanDifferentStoriesAbleBitsListeningConversationLittle BitPartnersMeals Author:Christine Bottomley
“I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.” KnowsLittlesRememberFatherBitsDyingListeningLittle BitRemember WhenColtrane Author:Wayne Coyne
“There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite a bit, and I was also pretty big into Josh Grider back then. I remember going to a lot of Kevin Fowler shows early, and Eli Young Band was another one of the groups I listened to a lot of when I was learning to write and play guitar.” WayWritingFirstsPersonsPlayShowsBigsRememberYoungBitsGroupsListeningBandGuitarJust OneRogerKevinJoshRandy Author:Curtis Grimes
“Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.” LittlesWantedBitsHeardListeningCallingBandLittle BitGreen Author:Agent M
“London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.” LittlesHateBitsAudienceLaughingListeningI HateDetailsLondonTricky Author:Steve Coogan
“I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it.” ThinkingWayKindLittlesSongBitsBehindsListeningLittle BitBeatsResistanceDragArticulationPoetry And Music Author:Matthew Zapruder
“At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.” FirstsSaidWantedBitsDifficultListeningImpressionJust ListenFirst Impression Author:Frank Iero
“The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.” ThinkingI CanSongBitsSoundWrittenListeningRadioFlatsStolenWholesaleCover Songs Author:Nick Lowe
“As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between the lines of what some body is saying and trying to read their mind a little bit where there at because most people don't really say what they're feeling. Which is the bones of great literature.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMindWellsLittlesImportantFeelingsBodyLiteratureBitsLinesListeningLittle BitCommunicateBonesBetween The LinesGreat LiteratureRead Between The Lines Author:Joy Behar
“Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging.” HandsMightThreeFeltBitsHeardListeningProfoundVersionsDigitalCaptureTapeEngagingDynamicsAnalog Author:Kevin Shields
“I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.” KindStillsHomeBodyBitsListeningFishesVegetarianVeganFlexible Author:Amanda Crew
“The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist today, and hopefully, as the generation of performers that is training and listening to our show at the same time comes up, and becomes a working generation of performers listening to our show-hopefully that's going to change some of the ways they're looking at the hierarchy of theatre and start to blur those lines a bit more.” WayTryingMeanShowsTodayArtistBitsLinesGenerationsListeningConversationTrainingCome UpTheatreHopefullyPerformersHierarchyBlur Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone
“As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel like it is a little bit egotistical to be like, "I hope they are a better person after listening to my song."” FeelsWritingLittlesPersonsSongBitsSoundTakenListeningLittle BitMessagesBetter PersonCheesyEgotistical Author:Thomston
“So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me].” I CanFeelingsBitsListeningBedLovelyMasterpiece80sXmasLovely Family Author:Nicola Sturgeon
“The idea of listening to a record that's in one generic style, it becomes quite boring after the third or fourth song, in my opinion. It just becomes a bit... when you've got the same arrangement on a song, your ears get tired. I come from a DJ background and it's about trying to put songs together that don't fit necessarily but you can get away with putting them next to each other. I think of myself as a punter and ask myself: what would I like to hear?” ThinkingTryingIdeasTogetherSongNextAsksBitsOpinionRecordsStyleListeningFitEarsThirdsTiredBoringBackgroundsGet AwayFourthArrangementsDjsGenericPunters Author:Dom Thomas
“I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.” NightBitsTvsListeningBedCaughtCaught UpListening To MusicWatching TvInsomniac Author:A. J. McLean
“Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.” WorldWayCultureFatherBitsWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtListeningHeavyBritishMetalsSuburbsWaynePassed AwayTorontoHeavy MetalAustinBritish Culture Author:Mike Myers
“I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.” SoulKidsUsedBitsBoysListeningGrewTasteGrew UpSouthLondonSuitsShopsBrownPantsEclecticBowieNeighbourhoodsTaste In MusicEclectic StyleToppers Author:Gary Oldman
“Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.” MeanSaidPlayWould BeBitsNiceListeningTerribleHappeningsBeing NiceShut UpNanniesGrannyExcursions Author:Terry Pratchett