The best musicians are not the best players, they're the…

“The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.”

— Marie Sabillo

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but…

— Wilferd Peterson

The best listeners listen between the lines.

— Nina Malkin

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

— Mary Kay Ash

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…

— John Philip Sousa

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a…

— Paul Stanley

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

— John Fogerty

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

— David Berg

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't…

— Louis Armstrong

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

— Brad Paisley

I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my…

— Al Yankovic

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

— Pat Metheny

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

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

— Charlene Li

“The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you…

— Wynton Marsalis