Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.
Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.
You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.
Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.
Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
