Quotes About Engagement

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.