Listeners Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Leo Ornstein

  Talking, Trying, Compromise

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• I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

  Leo Ornstein

  Thinking, Trying, Pieces

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• 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.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Song, Land, Knowing

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• You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.

  Tony Todd

  School, Mean, Winning

  "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.

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• When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

  Larry Fessenden

  Loneliness, Imagination, Scary

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words.

  Jack White

  Art, Hate, Mean

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• 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

  People, Leader, Praise

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• 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

  Self, Mastery, Speech

  Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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• A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.

  Cass Sunstein

  Attitude, Democracies Have, Giving

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• Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

  Paul Fleischman

  Radio, Invisible, Lurking

  Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano.

  Michael Hersch

  Writing, Essence, Piano

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• What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.

  Nils Frahm

  Appreciation, Night, Space

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• 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

  Play, Creating, People

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• 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

  Hate, Truth Is, Journalist

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• 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

  Children, Adventure, Should Have

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Mirrors

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

  Amos Lee

  Hate, Knowing, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Military, Men, Order

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• I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Encouragement, People, Giving

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• The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

  Saul Bellow

  Powerful, Attention, Use

  1989 Something To Remember Me By, preface.

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• The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.

  George Steiner

  Heart, Musical, Clarity

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Style, Spices, Tradition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Arrogant, Faults

  Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  Isaac Stern

  Communication, Want, Force

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• Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Symphony, Different

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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