“Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.” PeopleWaySometimesSeemsStrangeListeningMagazinesBlogs Author:Victoria Legrand
“It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.” IfsShouldMadeSeemsFeltSoundTreeColorListeningWalkingRhythmComposer Author:Charles E. Burchfield
“It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.” IfsMenGivingWellsKindEnoughStoriesSeemsRememberNamesWaterCommonBreakExampleListeningUnderstoodAspectMedicineAncientIsolationCommandmentsFeverPrecaution Author:Mark Nepo
“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've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...” IfsNeedsWritingKindLittlesDifferentHelpingStoriesSeemsVoiceListeningDramaticAwakeShakesHelp MeListening To MusicSuperstitious Author:Kelly Link
“Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.” IfsSeemsSchoolCultureEnjoyOne ThingListeningFishesDownfallSchools Of Fish Author:DJ Quik
“I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.” KnowsSometimesSeemsAttentionMistakePlansListeningPay AttentionGod Has A Plan Author:Nick Vujicic
“I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.” SeemsAgeMemoriesListeningLet Me Book:GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT Source: GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT
“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.” IfsGivingSeemsLosesPrayerDoorsCryListeningLetting GoGiving UpDrivenHold FastNever Let Go Author:Jane Frances de Chantal
“I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSeemsCertainStuffRealizingResultsChangedListeningActivityElementsEarsSettlingCompositionSeemingFiltersBeing Free Author:Peter Gabriel
“With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'” ThinkingKnowsKindMayHardSeemsWantedSchoolRememberFeltPresidentResultsPiecesHeardLike YouListeningTestsBallsHearingTouchingUnbelievableRemember WhenCotton Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.” IfsMenWorldGivingMeanWarProblemSeemsWould BeYoungChanceSecretWonderfulMinutesThis WorldBabyListeningYeahHungerFolksPopsSolveHeyPollutionWonderful WorldBaby LoveGive It A Chance Author:Louis Armstrong
“The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.” WaySeemsRunningSoundVoiceAudienceDogFrontsListeningRadioInvisibleMysteriousBeachAppetiteDriftingHumoristsPerksBarnsCadenceSwineHeadphonesMysterious Ways Author:Garrison Keillor
“It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.” SeemsListeningFiddleBanjos Author:Ketch Secor
“How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American Bandstand", got our fashion and dance tips, and then we emulated it and bought those records that we heard. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds, and there's no uniformity. That bothers me.” PeopleSoulSeemsSchoolUsedCultureBlackLosesRecordsHeardFashionListeningTrainFishesBotherBlack PeopleSaturdayUniformitySoul TrainSchools Of Fish Author:DJ Quik
“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.” IfsKnowsWayWantBelieveCharacterSeemsAudienceExampleListeningSceneConflictSpeechHappeningsDefenseTricksJustifiedAnother Way Author:Ernest Lehman
“In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.” WorldI CanSeemsHappensLanguageListeningShiftingReflectingPredictable Author:Pattiann Rogers
“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
“I think I was in high school, actually, and it was a guidance counselor or someone said, you know, you're just too loud; like you need to just stop talking so much and stop being so opinionated; like no one wants to listen to you because you're really annoying. And I'm glad that I didn't shut up, because it seems like people are listening.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsSaidSeemsSchoolTalkingLike YouListeningHigh SchoolGladLoudGuidanceAnnoyingShut UpCounselorOpinionatedGuidance Counselor Author:Jessica Valenti
“I never really got into any records purely thinking of them as a breakup record. I mean, honestly, for me, listening to a breakup record whilst dealing with one seems counterproductive!” ThinkingMeanSeemsRecordsListeningHonestlyBreakupCounterproductive Author:Michael Benjamin Lerner
“Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.” HandsSeemsSoundVoiceMaterialsMastersListeningDemandSingingTrackStormMelodyArrangementsReducingSamenessGlossSleight Of Hand Author:Jon Landau
“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.” ProblemBigsSeemsFamilyCommunicationListeningBig FamiliesGood CommunicationFamily ProblemsEffective Listening Author:Emma Thompson