Top 100 Quotes About Listeners
#1. And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.
John Steinbeck
#2. I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
David Sedaris
#3. Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners. We'll call that something an idea.
Chris J. Anderson
#4. The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'
Jim Rohn
#5. Our listeners asked us:
"What is chaos?"
We're answering:
"We do not comment on economic policy.
John Vaillant
#6. No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.
Terry Teachout
#7. Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
Frans De Waal
#8. It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
Christopher Lee
#9. The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
Pat Metheny
#10. Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don't know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be 'Mad-Eye.' Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.
J.K. Rowling
#11. Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
John Amery
#12. It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!
Chely Wright
#13. Active Listeners, listen more than they talk. Listen more than is comfortable. Listen more than most people. Listen, and listen and listen...then they ask the next question and listen again...that's a game changer... It will impact your ability to connect, to coach or to sell.
Farshad Asl
#14. The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.
Juliet Marillier
#15. I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
Emanuel Ax
#16. You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.
Gene Pitney
#17. Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear.
Debasish Mridha
#18. The best listeners listen between the lines.
Nina Malkin
#19. I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
Jane Yolen
#20. A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Franz Grillparzer
#21. I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
John Hall
#22. People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.
Mike Tomlin
#23. So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
Paul Weyrich
#24. I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.
Marc Maron
#25. The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
Leo Strauss
#26. When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
Dan Hill
#27. It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Bernard Holland
#28. If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
Robert Breault
#29. Inspiring communicators always expect a lot from their listeners.
John C. Maxwell
#30. In 1928, radio networks like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) extended nationwide - any major political address could expect to reach forty million listeners.
Joseph Cummins
#31. Only when waves fall on the shore do they make a harmonious sound;
Only when breezes shake the woods do we hear a rustling in the leaves.
Only from a marriage of two forces does music arise in the world.
Where the is no love, where listeners are dumb, there can never be song.
Rabindranath Tagore
#32. Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
Helen Keller
#33. We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#34. I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.
ASAP Rocky
#35. It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.
Joshua Redman
#36. One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.
Jerry Speyer
#37. Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
Ellen Bass
#38. Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.
David Pajo
#39. Sorry, listeners. I need to go make sure she's all right. I take you now to the sound of a human stomach digesting, heavily amplified and electronically distorted.
Joseph Fink
#40. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
Lee Ellis
#41. Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.
John Dos Passos
#42. There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#43. Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#44. Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.
Philip Pullman
#45. We - as readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the same swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it.
Thomas C. Foster
#46. Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.
Dale Carnegie
#47. Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.
Ian Kershaw
#48. The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners,
Jonathan Franzen
#49. History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
#50. Trees are silent guards, they are the listeners and they hold knowledge mankind has long forgotten." - The Wolf and The Druidess
Cornelia Amiri
#51. Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.
Adam S. McHugh
#53. After spending the last 15 years guest hosting, I couldn't be happier to get the opportunity to host my own show! I'm looking forward to talking sports, connecting with listeners, and interviewing amazing guests every day, while being a part of the FOX Sports Radio family. It was worth the wait.
Jay Mohr
#54. If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.
Ferdinand Lundberg
#55. Or consider "Here Without You" by 3 Doors Down, or almost any song by the group Maroon 5. Those bands are so featureless that critics and listeners created a new music category - "bath rock" - to describe their tepid sounds. Yet whenever they came on the radio, almost no one changed the station.
Charles Duhigg
#57. Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.
Robert G. Picard
#59. Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#60. 'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.
Peter Guber
#61. I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
Erykah Badu
#62. If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.
Joss Stone
#63. Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#64. I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
Anthony Kiedis
#65. The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
Lawrence Welk
#66. Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
Paul Fleischman
#67. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Charles Dickens
#68. Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.
Edward Hirsch
#69. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.
Jane Messer
#70. I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.
Rush Limbaugh
#71. Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
Oliver North
#72. If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker
#73. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
Joe Shuster
#74. Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
Mignon McLaughlin
#75. I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Marilyn Monroe
#76. When a musician . . . does not have the ability to bend the souls of listeners to where he wishes, his skill and knowledge may be considered null and vain. - Vincenzo Galilei, 1581
Bruce Haynes
#77. Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.
Joseph Badaracco
#78. Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson
#80. The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.
Marie Sabillo
#81. The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
Emanuel Ax
#82. I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
David Gilmour
#83. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.
Nikhil Banerjee
#84. I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.
Neal Boortz
#85. I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
Ira Glass
#86. Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Andrew Cuomo
#87. Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Kingsley Amis
#88. Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
Leonard Mlodinow
#89. Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
Herbie Hancock
#90. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)
Jonathan Auxier
#91. The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#92. Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
K.d. Lang
#93. Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.
Robert Plant
#94. A good speech is like a miniskirt
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.
Naa Shalman
#95. I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
Nas
#96. If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
Darrell Issa
#97. Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman - perhaps especially a traveling feminist - becomes a kind of celestial bartender.
Gloria Steinem
#98. Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.
Gia Coppola
#99. Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#100. It is notable that many of the Semi-Arians were men of exceptional moral rigor but apparently little gentleness,13 and although Gregory also exhorted his listeners to focus on doing good works, he reminded them, God specially rejoices in revealing Himself to the world as Love.
Justin S. Holcomb
