“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.” PeopleLooksMatterCenturyListeningNo Matter WhatTiredSermons Book:The Doomsday Book Source: The Doomsday Book
“the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.” BornMusicCenturyListeningPurityChillHymnsLickingIcicles Book:Manhattan Memoir Source: Manhattan Memoir
“My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.” ThinkingWantWellsMy OwnInfluenceCenturyPoetListeningForgivingBritishPoeticAssociates20th CenturyBrevity Author:David Starkey
“When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?” MenHardTurnsTalkingAudienceCenturyChangedListeningSunriseThings Have Changed Author:Hal Holbrook
“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.” WellsKindDoeSeemsSongCoursesGrowsGrowing UpGrowingCenturyListeningGrewGrew UpEnglandObvious21st CenturyCuzObvious ThingsOld Music Author:George Ezra