Listening Quotes — Page 30

RF

Poet

“As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear throughout my writing. Drumming has definitely had a huge influence on the way I write, too. Has definitely tuned my ear to rhythm. After I've written something, I'll go through it repeatedly, carefully listening to the construction of the words, seeing, hearing how they flow.”

Writing Listening Influence

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Richard Thornton

Architect

“Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.”

Long Listening Tribes

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

“Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.”

Angel Speak

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Ruskin Bond

Author

“I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.”

Men Listening

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Stefan Zweig

Writer

“For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.”

Play Listening Nerves

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".”

Culture Listening Information

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Stephen King

Author

“Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.”

Faces Listening Mud

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Robyn Hitchcock

Musician, Singer-Songwriter

“When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.”

Listening Drawing Teenager

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Robyn Hitchcock

Musician, Singer-Songwriter

“Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.”

Growing Up Listening Musical

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Steven Morrissey

Singer-Songwriter

“I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.”

New York Listening Movement

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Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur

“Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.”

Listening Appreciation Study

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J. K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter

“He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.”

Faces Silence Listening

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