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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.
John Oliver
Saying
Relationship
You
Jokes
People
Listening
Face
Somebody
Back
Project
Between
Improv
Want
Forth
Really
Your
Standup
Whole
Thing
Two
Two People
Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.
John Podhoretz
You
Listening
Three
Country
Own
Too
Bad
Obama
About
Triumphs
Economic
He
Head
Primarily
Over
Talk
Make
His
Years
Exists
Move
Want
Might
Describing
Why
Last
I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.
Johnny Christ
Music
Try
Listening
Too Much
Focus
Band
Too
Had
Over
Like
Because
Always
Coming
Where
Influences
Place
Much
I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.
Johnny Flynn
Music
You
Listening
First
Live
Mind-Blowing
Incredibly
Lyrics
Saw
Way
Slim
Crowd
He
Performer
Him
Without
Came
His
Off
Infectious
Listen
Really
Across
Pays
Works
Play
If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.
Johnny Marr
You
Listening
Vegan
Fall
Band
Top
Tops
Run
Tend
Week
Volume
Remotely
Ferdinand
Role
Successful
Miles
Grown-Up
Four
I've lost a few notes on the top. But I've gained a little insight about what makes people comfortable when they're listening or watching a performance of mine. It usually has to do with singing something that isn't vocally too strenuous.
Johnny Mathis
People
Listening
Singing
Lost
Few
Too
Top
Mine
Insight
About
Something
Performance
Comfortable
Makes
Gained
Little
Notes
Watching
Strenuous
The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at what he did. Most people don't realize what a great pianist he was. After listening to him for years, I finally met him, and he was the nicest human being.
Johnny Mathis
Great
Me
People
Genius
Human Being
Listening
King
Met
Finally
Favorite
Absolute
Pianist
He
Most
Him
Became
Nat King Cole
Years
Did
Human
Being
After
Realize
Really
Who
Captured
Nicest
At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.
Jon Crosby
Time
Good
Listening
Past
Month
Rap
Touring
Bag
Stuff
Since
Most
Because
Metal
Least
Been
Get
Really
Radio
A good commentator is someone who obviously people like listening to, who gets the blend between description, entertainment and accuracy of conveying the event right. If you can do that in an interesting way, you are a good commentator.
Jonathan Agnew
Good
You
Entertainment
People
Listening
Way
Someone
Between
Blend
Like
Obviously
Commentator
Accuracy
Gets
Interesting
Conveying
Interesting Way
Who
Description
Event
Right
When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
Jonathan Groff
You
Listening
Focus
Onstage
Reacting
Always
Really
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
Joni Mitchell
War
Together
Creativity
Listening
Free
Soldiers
Stations
Out
Critical
Some
Born
Had
Songs
Put
Were
Coverage
Vietnam
Noticed
Vietnam War
Meantime
Radio
Radio Stations
Playing
Compilation
I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the Caribbean, Leeds, Scarborough or London there's always someone who's got a story about him.
Jonny Bairstow
People
World
Listening
Other
Caribbean
London
About
Someone
Him
Around
Always
Got
Learnt
Been
Lot
Leeds
Australia
Going
Story
Whether
Dad
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
Jonny Greenwood
Music
Listening
Else
Doing
Quite
Anything
Anything Else
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
Jools Holland
Music
Time
You
Architecture
Listening
Looking
Live
Think
Films
Easy
Exciting
How
Realised
Paintings
Traveller
Present
Necessarily
Playing
When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
Jools Holland
Love
Remember
Mother
Listening
Lamp
Pay
Careless
Small
Piano
Because
Off
Very
Sitting
Oil
Turned
Bill
Electricity
Playing
With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.
Jordin Sparks
Listening
Franklin
Solo
Introduced
Temptations
Aretha
Aretha Franklin
Stuff
Era
Diana
Diana Ross
Motown
Up
Five
Jackson
Just
Grew
Loved
Younger
Us
Grandparents
Actually
I want to be worldwide, international, in everyone's ears, and everyone listening to what I'm saying, because I think I say some good stuff.
Jorja Smith
Saying
Good
Listening
Think
Worldwide
Everyone
Ears
Say
Some
Stuff
Because
Want
International
I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.
Jorja Smith
Myself
People
Listening
About
Write
Like
One of the things I have been getting into is meditation. Sometimes it is just 5-10 minutes per day, lying on my bed and listening to a meditation app on my phone to try to calm my mind.
Jos Buttler
Day
Phone
Sometimes
Try
Listening
Mind
Calm
Meditation
Lying
One Of The Things
Minutes
Per
Bed
Been
Getting
Just
App
Things
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Jose Bergamin
Music
You
Eyes
Better
Listening
Ears
Cover
Than
Your
What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
Joseph Fiennes
People
Listening
Everyone
Find
Classical
Following
No-One
Knows
Because
Doing
Hand
Text
Compelling
Plays
I first started listening to Sondheim's work when I was a kid.
Josh Groban
Work
Listening
First
Kid
Sondheim
Started
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.
Josh Turner
Love
Soul
Heart
Problem
Listening
Fans
Singing
Love Songs
Too
Relating
Relationships
Say
Out
Something
No Problem
Songs
Put
Taking
Like
Know
Doing
Heart And Soul
Lives
Deeply
I have a weekly playlist on Spotify called Mixtape Mondays. So every Sunday night, I sit around listening to tunes to place. It's becoming my favorite part of the week.
Joshua Ostrander
Listening
Sunday
Sit
Every
Every Sunday
Favorite
Sunday Night
Favorite Part
Week
Weekly
Part
Around
Spotify
Becoming
Tunes
Place
Night
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
Joyce Carol Oates
Hope
Experience
Listening
Reading
Few
Own
Books
Find
My Own
More
Investigate
How
Sound
Yes
Listen
Quite
Listened
Just
Wanted
Format
Fascinating
Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.
Juan Antonio Bayona
Life
Me
Remember
Listening
My Life
Parents
Monday
Every
Lying
Saw
TV
Scariest
Scary
Scary Movie
Head
Bed
Were
Send
Movie
Spanish
Movies
Used
Ever
Monday Night
Night
Imagined
Imagining
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