There was a time when content could be manipulated with money, but today we have surpassed that. Now, only good content will create ripples and strike a chord because the artistes are connecting directly with their listeners through social media.
Listeners can expect to feel very relaxed during the listening experience of ‘Beyond Waves.’ The songs are very lyrical and extremely intimate, so I feel like you’re going to need to be in a quiet room when you hear them, at least the first time.
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.
If you think about ‘The Pill’ by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women – country listeners and beyond – that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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 want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.
I haven’t said this yet, but my goal for this ‘Beautiful’ album is not to say, ‘I’m beautiful,’ or, ‘OK, I’m so cool.’ This is, honestly, an album written for the listeners.
As long as everyone is having fun, especially our listeners, that’s what counts. I try to put my team in the best spot possible for them to win and to deliver a great show to our listeners.
President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, ‘I haven’t communicated enough.’ He said his job is to ‘tell a story to the American people’ – as if that’s the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?
More negatives write than call. It’s a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.
I did an audiobook for ‘Rough Crossings,’ which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.
There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They’re different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.
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