Listeners Quotes · Page 3

Whenever I work on a song, my focus is on the listeners who follow my type of music.

— Badshah

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

— Joseph Addison

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend…

— Paul Lansky

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should…

— Beck

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

— Robert McKee

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

— Joshua Homme

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

— Horace

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when…

— Ronnie Apteker

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our…

— John Philip Sousa

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's…

— Helen Van Slyke

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on…

— Darrell Issa

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy…

— Charles Clark

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it…

— Richard Strauss

We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our…

— Thomas F. Wilson

Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be…

— Grenville Kleiser

Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies…

— Robert G. Picard

I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for…

— Regina Belle

However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have…

— Robin Farina

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you…

— Greg Laswell

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable,…

— Justin Sane

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

— Charles R. Swindoll

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

— Nikhil Banerjee

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

— Richard Branson

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

— Paul Rodgers

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

— Christine Pelosi

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

— Pat Metheny

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

— Pat Metheny

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

— Dee Dee Ramone

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

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

— W.A. Mathieu

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

— Jean de La Fontaine

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

— Jim Rohn

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

— Casey Kasem

As I've been getting more passionate about NFTs, my listeners have been asking questions about it.

— Randi Zuckerberg