My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm particularly keen on promoting this [Nikolai] Medtner piece, Night Wind, because I feel it is a fantastic work that hasn't been… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears… — Gene Pitney Copy Share Image
“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that… — Barry Harris Copy Share Image
There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep… — Greg James Copy Share Image
A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize… — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image