Quotes about Listener

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. Votes: 4

It takes a great man to be a good listener. Votes: 2

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. Votes: 2

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener. Votes: 2

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. Votes: 2

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated. Votes: 2

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. Votes: 2

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. Votes: 2

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. Votes: 2

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. Votes: 2

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship. Votes: 2

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out. Votes: 2

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first. Votes: 2

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. Votes: 2

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail. Votes: 2

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. Votes: 2

Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian and relatable, it's still chutney. Votes: 2

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it. Votes: 2

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. Votes: 2

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. Votes: 2

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on. Votes: 2

I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche. Votes: 2

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. Votes: 2

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means. Votes: 2

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again. Votes: 2

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. Votes: 2

I'm a good listener. Votes: 0

I'm a darned good listener. Votes: 0

With radio, the listener absorbs everything. Votes: 0

An appreciative listener is always stimulating. Votes: 0

Festus, you're such a great listener. Votes: 0

The casual listener won't be around forever. Votes: 0

What else is soul but a listener? Votes: 0

Songs are as sad as the listener. Votes: 0

I'm more of a listener than a talker. Votes: 0

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway. Votes: 0

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener Votes: 0

What bores the listener bores the speaker too. Votes: 0

To be a good writer, become a good listener. Votes: 0

A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Votes: 0

I think a good director is a good listener. Votes: 0

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. Votes: 0

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Votes: 0

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. Votes: 0

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener Votes: 0

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds. Votes: 0

It takes a great man to make a great listener Votes: 0

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. Votes: 0

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. Votes: 0

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom. Votes: 0

Stop eating junk. Be a good listener and a loyal friend. Votes: 0

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it. Votes: 0

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) Votes: 0

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener Votes: 0

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener. Votes: 0

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. Votes: 0

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. Votes: 0

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking. Votes: 0

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill. Votes: 0

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. Votes: 0

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener Votes: 0

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener. Votes: 0

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener. Votes: 0

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling. Votes: 0

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word. Votes: 0

I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people. Votes: 0

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. Votes: 0

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener. Votes: 0

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener. Votes: 0

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. Votes: 0

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener. Votes: 0

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. Votes: 0

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too. Votes: 0

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person. Votes: 0

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues. Votes: 0

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. Votes: 0

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. Votes: 0

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. Votes: 0

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." -Frank Tyger Votes: 0

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. Votes: 0

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. Votes: 0

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician Votes: 0

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. Votes: 0

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener. Votes: 0

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. Votes: 0

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener. Votes: 0

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener. Votes: 0

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener. Votes: 0

He had a feel for silence, for leading to an unsounded note the listener yearned for... Votes: 0

I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. Votes: 0

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Votes: 0

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker. Votes: 0

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented. Votes: 0

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. Votes: 0

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. Votes: 0

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. Votes: 0

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener Votes: 0

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us! Votes: 0

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words. Votes: 0

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener. Votes: 0

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener. Votes: 0

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time. Votes: 0

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up. Votes: 0

I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music. Votes: 0

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. Votes: 0

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener. Votes: 0

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener. Votes: 0

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. Votes: 0

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful. Votes: 0

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed. Votes: 0

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be. Votes: 0

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going. Votes: 0

Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships. Votes: 0

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. Votes: 0

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. Votes: 0

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener. Votes: 0

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails. Votes: 0

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. Votes: 0

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.... Votes: 0

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. Votes: 0

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. Votes: 0

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller. Votes: 0

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant. Votes: 0

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there. Votes: 0

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it. Votes: 0

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. Votes: 0

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener. Votes: 0

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader. Votes: 0

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Votes: 0

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Votes: 0

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen. Votes: 0

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record. Votes: 0

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. Votes: 0

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. Votes: 0

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. Votes: 0

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard. Votes: 0

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. Votes: 0

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. Votes: 0

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. Votes: 0

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. Votes: 0

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Votes: 0

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is. Votes: 0

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer. Votes: 0

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us. Votes: 0

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. Votes: 0

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. Votes: 0

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is Votes: 0

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song. Votes: 0

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. Votes: 0

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. Votes: 0

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes. Votes: 0

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting. Votes: 0

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. Votes: 0

Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. Votes: 0

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school. Votes: 0

I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it. Votes: 0

I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs. Votes: 0

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be. Votes: 0

Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support. Votes: 0

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. Votes: 0

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Votes: 0

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood. Votes: 0

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. Votes: 0

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. Votes: 0

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself. Votes: 0

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. Votes: 0

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand. Votes: 0

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words. Votes: 0

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good Votes: 0

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. Votes: 0

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener! Votes: 0

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. Votes: 0

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener. Votes: 0

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless. Votes: 0

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see. Votes: 0

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener. Votes: 0

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear. Votes: 0

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote. Votes: 0

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way. Votes: 0

With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis, I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail. Votes: 0

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared. Votes: 0

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone. Votes: 0

I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly. Votes: 0

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too. Votes: 0

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen. Votes: 0

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn. Votes: 0

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music. Votes: 0

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come. Votes: 0

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people. Votes: 0

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. Votes: 0

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with. Votes: 0

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement. Votes: 0

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener. Votes: 0

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. Votes: 0

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn. Votes: 0

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher. Votes: 0

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands. Votes: 0

I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know. Votes: 0

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself. Votes: 0

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener. Votes: 0

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating. Votes: 0

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener. Votes: 0

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. Votes: 0

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. Votes: 0

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense. Votes: 0

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't. Votes: 0

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener. Votes: 0

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. Votes: 0

The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future of listener-powered community radio. Votes: 0

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view. Votes: 0

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental. Votes: 0

It's like someone who prays every night saying God's a good listener. Just because you're talking to us doesn't mean we're listening. With me and God, you never really know. Votes: 0

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. Votes: 0

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener. Votes: 0

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well. Votes: 0

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go Votes: 0

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech. Votes: 0

The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show. Votes: 0

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music. Votes: 0

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come. Votes: 0

I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener. Votes: 0

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again. Votes: 0

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener. Votes: 0

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album. Votes: 0

Twitter needs to continue being a good listener and recognize that the service has been redefined by lots of people, tweet by tweet, but also come up with its own priorities. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. Votes: 0

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband. Votes: 0

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you. Votes: 0

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it. Votes: 0

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need. Votes: 0

I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up. Votes: 0

The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt. Votes: 0

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators. Votes: 0

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell. Votes: 0

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener) Votes: 0

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together. Votes: 0

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. Votes: 0

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost. Votes: 0

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. Votes: 0

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener. Votes: 0

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take. Votes: 0

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us. Votes: 0

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little. Votes: 0

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for. Votes: 0

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard. Votes: 0

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener. Votes: 0

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds. Votes: 0

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself. Votes: 0

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it. Votes: 0

With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary barrier between themselves and the listener or they simply wont be heard. Votes: 0

Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest. Votes: 0

by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ... Votes: 0

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances. Votes: 0

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music. Votes: 0

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me. Votes: 0

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener. Votes: 0

Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty? Votes: 0

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it. Votes: 0

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation. Votes: 0

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener. Votes: 0

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about. Votes: 0

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words. Votes: 0

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense. Votes: 0