Top 100 Quotes About Listeners
#1. One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.
Donnie Simpson
#2. The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
Jon Landau
#3. Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
#4. Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Joan D. Vinge
#5. Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.
Richard Powers
#6. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#7. Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
Marian McPartland
#9. So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Pliny The Younger
#10. The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.
Dessa Darling
#11. It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Erma Bombeck
#12. Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
Plautus
#13. Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.
Mary Kay Ash
#14. A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.
Scott Pruett
#15. Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.
Jeremy Robinson
#16. The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.
Guy Kawasaki
#17. You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.
Dave Ramsey
#18. I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them.
Alison Rosen
#19. My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes.
Alex Adams
#20. Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.
Robin Hobb
#21. Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.
Robert Glasper
#22. It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
Imogen Heap
#23. Lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
Hermann Hesse
#24. Good listeners always hear something novel
Ela Crain
#25. There are no uninteresting people, only disinterested listeners!
Sean McPheat
#26. It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God's action in the sacred story, the history of the Christ on earth.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#27. I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
Rivers Cuomo
#28. Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.
Bear Grylls
#29. The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
Casey Kasem
#30. To be on 'Coast to Coast,' you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.
George Noory
#31. Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.
Charlene Li
#33. I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
Omar Sy
#34. Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time he spoke. He
Umberto Eco
#35. The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
Christine Pelosi
#37. Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#38. I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
Hayao Miyazaki
#39. Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
Tamsin Greig
#40. Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
John Le Carre
#41. Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book-
those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.
Ruskin Bond
#42. As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.
J.K. Rowling
#43. The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
Kevin Stirtz
#44. Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.
Kool Moe Dee
#45. Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.
Vincent De Paul
#46. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole
#48. What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
Douglas Brinkley
#49. The dead are the best listeners in the world. The corpse takes it all in, never interrupts, doesn't criticize me, lets me waffle on for as long as I like.
Darren Shan
#50. My parents are great listeners
Which is why I never tell them anything
Sonya Sones
#51. Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
Ilka Chase
#52. I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
John Philip Sousa
#53. I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.
Ravi Shankar
#54. Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
Allan Kozinn
#55. They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested.
Tom Perrotta
#56. If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young
#57. I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.
Bob Edwards
#58. What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.
Marc Myers
#59. Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Brigham Young
#60. Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Carl Orr
#61. Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
Anthony Trollope
#62. Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.
Peter Guber
#63. Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
Edwidge Danticat
#64. I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
Eugene H. Peterson
#65. The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply.
Tony Judt
#66. Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
Natasha Bedingfield
#67. More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
John Hall
#68. Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.
Jane Fonda
#69. The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
Joseph Addison
#70. Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
Bob Edwards
#71. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
John Ray
#72. President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?
Paul Ryan
#73. The Constitution guarantees free speech, but it doesn't guarantee listeners.
John C. Maxwell
#74. I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.
Ben Folds
#75. To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir ... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
Sukarno
#76. Middle children become great listeners. They understand the value of acknowledging others' positions and feelings, and use this information as ammunition to help them get what they want.
Catherine Salmon
#78. In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled.
Tom Standage
#79. Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.
Faris Badwan
#80. My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
Arnold Schoenberg
#81. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#82. When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know
an authority good for nothing.
Augustus William Hare
#83. It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
Arlene Francis
#85. With the millions of listeners to 'Coast to Coast AM,' I get constant feedback from people who are not happy with the current candidates. Maybe I will run for president in 2012.
George Noory
#86. The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.
James F. Cooper
#87. The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
Justin Sane
#88. If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger
Wes Fesler
#89. If there were only one meaning for the words, the first interpreter would find it, and all other listeners would have neither the toil of seeking nor the pleasure of finding.
Ephrem The Syrian
#90. The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening ... there's nothing like that.
Marc Maron
#91. Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person
Richard Carlson
#92. Men are not listeners ... They hear what they expect to hear, or want to hear, or are certain they will hear, and women, being supple creatures trained to please, have often told them what we women knew would satisfy them. [p. 167]
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#93. Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
Bill Dixon
#94. Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.
Cornelia Funke
#95. Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright
#96. Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where in fact, we are most reluctant to go.
Walter Brueggemann
#98. Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
Michael Stipe
#99. I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.
Orson Welles
#100. A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
John Powell
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