“Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.” YearsArtMastersListeningDegreesProjectsPrisonRadioSentencesAnnoyingDepressingArt HistoryMost Depressing Author:Sarah Vowell
“When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.” EndsHardSongAudienceFrontsListeningProjectsCrowdsStoryteller Author:Jens Lekman
“Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.” ChildrenIdeasLightEyeVisionHeardListeningProjectsActiveInfant Author:Eyvind Kang
“In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.” PeopleWantTwoWholeFacesListeningProjectsJokesBack And Forth Author:John Oliver