"Everything that comes with that obviously – improve every day, practise, listen, dedicate yourself – but most of all enjoy your football.
"You get a dedicated listening crowd here, and that separates it from most of the other places where I've performed".
Clearly, these are not people who just happened to be listening; they are dedicated enthusiasts who have found a medium suitable for expressing the fervor of their fandom.
I watched old flames reigniting all around me couples wandered the exhibition floor hand in hand and nuzzled one another while listening to seminars dedicated to "creating bedroom bliss".
Only about 1percentt of Pandora's listening hours are dedicated to ads, compared to 20percentt in traditional radio.
By targeting the handful of full-time, dedicated, listening-room jazz clubs in New York City, they are attacking the last remaining bastions of live jazz, and blaming them for the undeniable fact that playing jazz for a living does not, for the overwhelming majority of jazz musicians, provide a decent wage, much less retirement and health insurance.
While she closed by telling the senators that she looked forward to their questions, Monday was dedicated to listening to the lawmakers' speeches — or at least appearing to.
It all sounds far more dramatic than it is, but the last few years have been very difficult to live through.' That evening, at the Royal Festival Hall, as Sylvian sang of how 'mine is an empty bed/she's forgotten, I know', his audience of dedicated fans listened respectfully, as they always do.
The handmade headphones at the Laube, dedicated for listening fragments from the interviews in the garden.
In addition, only 44% (on average) of a jazz musician's income is from jazz (and likely a great deal of that is playing jazz as background music at restaurants or weddings, not in concert settings or dedicated jazz listening venues).
It could, for example, be an indication that a hospital is committed to providing patient-centered and family-focused care in which all members of the team are dedicated to listening to the patient and aligning care with patient and family wishes.
