Top 638 Listener Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors of this perception in such a way that those who wish to enter can.
The average commercial radio listener in America is not looking for lofty, intellectual subjects. This isn't brain surgery. It's about striking the passion of the people.
Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.
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.
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.
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.
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.
If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.
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.
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
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.
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.
I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.
Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
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.
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.
I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
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.
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
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.
If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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.
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.
You don't give Capello advice. Capello's a better talker than listener.
I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener.
I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.
Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.
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.
What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.
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.
There's not too many shows with, you know, mid 20s male lead on it. And I thought that would be obviously something to go for The Listener.
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.
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.
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.
I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.
It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.
Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.
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.
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
I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.
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.
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
