Forced Listening Quotes

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me.

A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.

The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...

All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.