“I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMeanImportantListeningMessagesHundredHarderZeitgeist Author:Courtney Love
“Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.” PeopleKindCountryHelpingShowsFeelingsYoungRocksListeningDrugMessagesMethodConstantWesternCurrentsCarefulHearingFeel GoodAll KindsPhrasesStreamsRock MusicGetting HighInterpreter Author:Virgil Miller Newton
“Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.” PeopleGivenChurchSeeingHugeListeningMessagesSingingAffectedSoloFellowshipChoir Author:DeLisha Milton-Jones
“It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about.” IfsThinkingMenMayReligiousVisionParticularHe ManListeningReturnMessagesFellowsSeekingInsightWildernessCommonplace Author:Loren Eiseley
“Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.” I CanDoneChristianChristianityListeningGrewMessagesGrew UpAdultsImpactSubstanceBullshitChristian Music Author:J Tillman
“I think people are listening to our message of securing the homeland first, keeping the American people safe and improving our economic situation. I think those things are being received well, and we're moving forward here.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsMovingSituationEconomicListeningSafeMessagesMoving ForwardImprovingHomeland Author:Chris Christie
“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
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolCultureLiteratureBrainTalkingListeningMessagesHigh SchoolBuiltCourtReunionAttendingPromHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Anna Quindlen
“Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. I said zark off. Thank you for listening to this message.” WellsSaidDoneJobsSimplePleasureNiceDoorsListeningMessagesSatisfactionShut UpVery HappyWell DoneNice DayJob Well DoneHave A Nice Day Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts