Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
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.
I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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!
I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.
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.
The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.
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.
Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.
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.
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.
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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.
Judging people is not an awesome job, it only demands being level headed and a good listener and observer.
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.
The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.
I love instrumental guitar records, but I also understand that, as a listener, it can be difficult to get through a whole album of just that one thing.
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.
I love narrative videos, but sometimes I think they can limit a listener's experience of a song.
It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
My son has no interest in music other than as a listener. He teaches English to Japanese students.
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.
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.
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.
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.
Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.
I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.
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