I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
Even if I can give my listeners peace for 30 minute through my voice, then I would feel I've done something for the society.
The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
We hope to win over new listeners who would normally never listen to an Aly & AJ record. That's our greatest expectation we've set for ourselves.
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
But while I was working with my team to conceptualize 'White Night', we hit writer's block and couldn't come up with a single that I felt would resonate with listeners.
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are few who can do both.
Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Since we have members who have grown up abroad, we really want to introduce Blackpink to K-pop listeners worldwide.
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
I try to change my concert program every couple of years - hopefully to keep my listeners interested.
I believe in my kind of music and I'm happy to have reached out to people through my songs. My dream was to sing my compositions and get accepted by listeners.
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
We can judge the pulse of a song and match it with our listeners' sensibilities. I think we do this extremely well, and it helps us a lot.
One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.
There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.
lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.
I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.
I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.
Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
We hope that our music does not stop at giving joy to the listeners but also change their lives positively.
Looking at my career graph, I have gone at a very slow and a steady pace. I have sustained myself for all these years and got the love of my listeners.
I think that you have to get out there and get with the folks and push the flesh and be connected to viewers and listeners.
That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.
Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
More than a quarter of a century into the band's career together, it's inspiring to hear Melvins continue to deafen new generations of listeners.
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.
Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
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