Top 70 Best Listener Quotes
#1. 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.
Claudia Rankine
#2. I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener.
Alan Lowenthal
#3. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#4. The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.
Arnold Schoenberg
#5. An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
Pam Brown
#6. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
#7. 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.
Edward De Bono
#8. 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.
Matt Berninger
#9. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
Rodney Atkins
#10. A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Diane Setterfield
#11. 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.
K.d. Lang
#12. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.
Siri Hustvedt
#13. No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
St. Jerome
#14. Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.
Philip Zaleski
#15. Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn.
Fredio Samples
#17. Author. Listener. Voice
Together, an exquisite journey.
Xe Sands
#18. A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
#20. I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.
Kimbra
#21. I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
T Bone Burnett
#22. The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.
George R R Martin
#23. It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Kelly Jones
#24. the search for a listener is fruitless.
Morrissey
#25. You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.
Kristian Bush
#26. 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.
Beck
#27. 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.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#28. I don't believe in landing on one genre. That's too limiting. I don't think about that when I'm writing and recording. I just make what I feel should happen. Genres almost feel like something that's more for the listener; a need to organize it in categories.
Brooke Waggoner
#29. To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.
Brad Listi
#30. I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.
Joseph Bruchac
#31. 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.
Ashton Kutcher
#32. I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.
Ben Lovett
#33. 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.
Dick Gephardt
#34. 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.
Peter Guber
#35. All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Emanuel Ax
#36. 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.
Ian McEwan
#37. I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.
Joshua Homme
#38. Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#39. 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.
James Mercer
#40. There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.
Edgar Allan Poe
#42. So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. Remember
Dale Carnegie
#43. I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.
Missy Mazzoli
#44. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.
George Meredith
#45. The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
Robert McKee
#46. With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Bob Edwards
#47. 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.
Arvo Part
#48. Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
Anthony Trollope
#49. In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
Sonia Sotomayor
#50. 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.
Jamie Zawinski
#51. The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.
Anthony Powell
#52. Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.
Timothy Carey
#53. I think the best part about my dad being gay is that I'm much more open-minded. I feel more at peace and I'm a good listener. I learned so much from (my dad's partner) John. How would I have turned out if this weren't my life?
Judith E. Snow
#54. That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.
Nancy Farmer
#55. The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
Kevin Stirtz
#56. It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
Arlene Francis
#57. 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.
Richard Branson
#58. We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?
Thomas F. Wilson
#59. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
#60. The best listeners listen between the lines.
Nina Malkin
#61. He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logic to arrive at certain conclusions, and who is disguising from us no argument on either side.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#62. I liked me and I had been well drilled in good manners by Aunt Penny, who had often told me the best manners meant being thoughtful, a good listener and watching what everyone else was doing and deciding if it was worth trying.
Merabeth James
#63. 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.
Will Hobbs
#64. He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite; it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#65. 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.
J. Tillman
#66. A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley
#68. The perfect opening is the word imagine, because imagine allows you to communicate in the eyes and the vision of the listener rather than yours. And the best illustration of that is "1984." Room 101 in "1984" - everyone's read it, and we all have our own imagination of what that looks like.
Frank Luntz
#69. Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.
Grenville Kleiser
#70. Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel