“Bands, especially when they’re good ones, can be like families, but unlike biological families—at least unlike my biological family—people in my band listen to each other.”
Marc Ribot
more infosource: Marc Ribot interview with Bill Frisell, BOMB magazine , Issue 79, Spring 2002.
category: band, family, listen, music
medium: Interview
“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
Eudora Welty
more infosource: One Writer’s Beginnings (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), 14.
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category: childhood, listen, story, storytelling
medium: Memoir
“Try not to speak.”
Sir Arthur John Gielgud
more infosource: Arthur, Orion Pictures (1981)
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category: conversation, film quotes, listen, silence, speak, talk
medium: film
notes: Arthur was written and directed by Steven Gordon
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