simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.


Elfriede Jelinek

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Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.
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It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, havin...
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good ...
JOSEPH ROUX
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Eyes are given only to those who can not see with their hearts.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM
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JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET"
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN
Surround yourself with people who listen to you like you listen to them and won't take it lightly, t...
LAURA E. BRUSSEAU
The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
BALTASAR GRACIáN
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simpl...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN
Those who chant are sanctified. All those who listen are blessed, and those who write save their anc...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
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DAVID NAIL
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POPE FRANCIS
Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit a...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J ALLARD
People who don’t follow their hearts are causing a great disservice to themselves, to the world, a...
KAILIN GOW
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HORACE ENGDAHL
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COLE MCCADE
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KNUT AHNLUND
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MAGNUS SCHEVING
Active Listeners, listen more than they talk. Listen more than is comfortable. Listen more than most...
FARSHAD ASL
Music means everything to me. Of course I enjoy making a beautiful photo for a new CD. That's part o...
JANINE JANSEN
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be s...
JOHN IRVING
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ...
TOM GLAZER
I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...
ZHUANGZI
People chose who they are in their hearts.
JUAN SANCHEZ
The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are heal...
ALBERT BANDURA
More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. S...
TRAVIS BRADBERRY
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely tr...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and a...
JACK REYNOR
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JOE GRACE
Peace is only available to those who want it, and only possible to those who will hug their enemy to...
BRETT BIAGGIO
None of us are classically trained. We're country people who enjoy country music.
MIKE BAILEY
For most music fans, it's in their nature to find and enjoy something that's new and exciting. There...
JAY FRANK
A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...
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I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.'
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was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels an...
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
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It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of peo...
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Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
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I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of peop...
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I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't h...
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My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann....
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When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not lit...
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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for...
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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
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I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worri...
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute ...
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The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
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I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something inste...
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illeg...
DANIEL EK
You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who c...
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MARTIN GORE
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their...
POLYBIUS
There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
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OTIS WILLIAMS
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SYLVESTER STALLONE
Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. 2 Kings 6:16
BIBLE
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
OSCAR WILDE
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ERIC FISCHL
So jaded to these people who stay judging without cases, like their mirror's freaking so broke they ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but i...
MICHAEL TIPPETT
Almost inevitably, these people are more exposed than those who tend to be protected.
CRISPIN HAWES
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
STEPHEN FRY
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. N...
SOCRATES
May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He do...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Those who savour, enjoy more flavour.
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People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train the...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more...
RICHARD HAASS
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LOUISE L. HAY
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JACKIE KENNEDY
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ...
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
LINDA RONSTADT
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who ...
SYLVESTER STALLONE
Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ
I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let ...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ...
MICHAEL STIPE
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Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that...
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