Listener Quotations

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

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.

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.

I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it detracted from the show. I more enjoyed shows where the guys came out and they just played.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

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.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

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

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

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.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart attack, it may be because you want the listener to exercise. Stories are tools to create social cohesion and to get humans to strategize together.

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

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

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.

No performer wants the listener to be distracted, least of all Lorraine,

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

I encourage people to bring ideas to the table. I'm very much a listener and keep an open ear.

If anything happens to anybody here volunteer or career Darrell is on the phone with them. He's a really good listener and easy to talk to, like another family member coming to see you.

Having a top-shelf, veteran talent like Carl P. Mayfield as the centerpiece of the Road Dog Trucking channel sends a strong message to the trucking community that we have made a major commitment to this very important listener base. With Carl, we are anticipating many good times down the road.

He's a great listener who can assess a situation very quickly and come up with some good advice. He's very thoughtful in the advice, because he knows that a little move right now can make a bulls-eye down the road. He's not going to go for just a quick fix.

He's a good listener and he's fitted in really well.

We Three Apples, we try to cater to a range of people in the storytelling community - from the listener to the amateur to the professional.

I'm a really good listener and easy to talk to, and students can come to me with any problems they might have.

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.

My music is the opposite of Nintendo. It works best for people who have an active attention span and are able to create worlds inside their head. It's a stimulus for the imagination, and it requires a bit more from the listener to build a world between the cracks.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

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

Using my listener database and RadioStudy has allowed me to get into the listener's head: What they value, fear, desire, etc.,

We know the kind of music listener that we are looking for.

That was kind of strange ... yeah. It's definitely been a strange couple of years, those things combined with the fact that my daughter was born as well, which was one of the best times of my life. Mixed emotions, and I think in the album, there are highs and lows. I think we don't let that saturate it too much -- we still look at it as a rock 'n' roll album, and we try not to unload on the listener too much with emotional burdens -- but it's an honest record, and we're honest lyrically, and I think you can listen to it in different ways.

The creative on these spots is fun, entertaining and informative. With the industry and listener momentum we're seeing, we're able to showcase what radio does best - engage and inform.

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

We have crashed Web sites. All of a sudden the Web site disappears. Well, then the listener thinks that well, maybe Kim got it wrong. Maybe I wrote it down wrong. Maybe I spelled it incorrectly when really, that particular vendor just couldn't handle the traffic that generated from that particular recommendation.

Stop eating junk. Be a good listener and a loyal friend.

I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

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

Radio is such a great medium. It makes you use one of the most important things God gave you imagination. The listener can picture what the announcer is telling you.

The good news is R&B and hip-hop has become so mainstream in the past few years that it doesn't surprise me that we've got this kind of listener base.

Satellite will never be as widespread as 'regular' radio, ... But it has already built tremendous listener loyalty.

Even if one is thinking about elevator music, or Weather Channel music, there isn't any necessity for that music to be bad music. I remind people all the time that Mozart would probably sound great in an elevator. A lot of Mozart is very smooth to our ears, but that doesn't mean there isn't an amazing amount of subtlety there for the listener who digs deeper.

Why does Beethoven appeal and continue to appeal? Other than the obvious (his having written great music), Beethoven communicates a credo so effectively that the listener finds the courage he needs to reaffirm his own belief in the purpose of life. Beethoven stiffens the fiber of our commitment in a language that is beauty itself, in a statement as open as a Greek temple. Friend Beethoven is the one friend we shall always have.

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.

I like listening to people, it's not even out of - I'm not like a professional listener or anything like that, but I enjoy people's stories.

I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

If you heard Harry Caray, he was best. If you heard Vin Scully, he was the best. If you heard Jack Buck, he was the best. That's the way it went. When I started, you were the only game in town, whether the listener liked it or not. They had to listen. Good or bad, you had to be in their ear.

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.

Not only does Mahler make it possible for the listener to visualize a time and place, but even more important is his ability to make you experience the feeling of being there.

Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.

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

The most satisfying thing about storytelling, and the most important thing that can come from it, is the connection that is formed between the storyteller and the listener, and between the listener and the other listeners. In the 21st century there are all kinds of electronic and digital connections. Storytelling creates an in-person connection.

A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.

As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I think there is an open-minded individual who will be able to listen to music of all types.

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

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something

the honest answer has to be that it's great music, but also the fact that it spans the whole range of Beethoven's language. It's the ultimate challenge, one of the ultimate rewards in music, as much for the listener as for the performer.

It's a lot harder for one guy to make a reputation for himself in radio than it used to be because the listener has so many options.

If I bring everybody in, they'll get the message that they're ready to go back out and say, 'This is the hill we're going after,' ... I'm a good listener and I value the things employees and parents would want to say to me.

I'm a darned good listener.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

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

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener