Listener Fatigue Quotes

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.

Since I am me, I find it very difficult to judge how fascinating listening to my nasal, heavily-accented drone for two hours would be to somebody who wasn't me.

Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

If you oversaturate the market with singles, then people will get sick of you.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.