Listeners Quotes - Page 15

• 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

  Falling In Love, Love You, Artist

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• 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

  Believe, Moving, Tears

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• 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

  Evil, Hearing, Authority

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.185

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• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Responsibility, Listening, Stories

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.130, UNM Press

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• ... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Disappointment, Succeed, Excellent

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.185, Broadview Press

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• It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

  Arlene Francis

  Conversation

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

  Henry Threadgill

  Music, Art, Crafts

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• 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

  Children, World, Littles

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.

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• Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Character, Color, Imagination

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

  Amy Sedaris

  School, Catholic, Stories

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• Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Ears, Please

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Music, Writing, Flirting

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Communication

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• 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.

  Clifton Anderson

  Uplifting, People, Turmoil

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• Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.

  Alan Hassenfeld

  People, Mold, Students

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• Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Peaceful, Atmosphere, May

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.112, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  David Lanz

  Player, Mirrors, Light

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• The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

  Casey Kasem

  Inspiring, Heart, Stories

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• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fighting, Your Side, Law

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

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• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  T Bone Burnett

  Stress, Years, Sound

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• 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

  Song, Media, Giving

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• To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

  Richard Branson

  Leader, Self Improvement, Improvement

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• 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

  Heart, Parenting, Attention

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• I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Song, Powerful, Reality

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