“I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.” LittlesRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpTownsMexicoDianaLittle Towns Author:Salma Hayek
“You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.” KnowsPlayMomentsCollegeListeningBandTownsMovedPopsWeatherReportsClassical MusicPop MusicSixteenFraternityVermontWedding Band Author:Stuart Hamm
“Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.” MenSaidSometimesPastUsedGuyWalksListeningMusicianBirdTownsBarsChecksTraditionalFranceGreekRestaurantsHanging OutStanding OutHornsBuddyJust ListenReacting Author:Jon Gordon
“We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGovernmentCareHealthListeningTownsMeetingsHealth CareEngagedHallsSubmitRepresentativesConstituentsTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Paul Ryan
“All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.” PeopleFeelsPersonsMadeBookMightLeftPoorKnowingRecordsImagineShareListeningWindowTownsDecadesCollectionsShyIsolatedTravel Books Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?” DoeNightWaitingDarkWalksLevelsMillionsListeningRainTownsGravesBranchesMelancholySteadySeptemberSmall TownRoaringBroodingDrippingRain At Night Book:The Town and the City Source: The Town and the City
“In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.” PeopleTryingEndsListeningTowns Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.” PeopleTryingEndsImagineWonderfulListeningTerribleTownsWonderful Things Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.” PeopleKnowsMightListeningGunCriticismTownsPraiseAddCandidatesSmall Town Author:Sarah Palin