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Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.
Chelsea Lankes
Music
Guitar
Ways
Guitar Lessons
Inspired
Piano
Piano Lessons
Taking
Involved
Always
Up
Listener
Different
Lessons
Growing
Growing Up
Different Ways
My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.
Christine McVie
Good
Ears
Listener
Really
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
Conor Oberst
Me
People
Song
World
Political
Other
Has-Been
More
Driven
Songs
Divisive
Empathetic
Empathy
Most
Also
Make
Been
Personal
Listener
Less
Even
Activism
Desire
My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
Curtis Mayfield
Teacher
Good
Me
People
School
Year
High
High School
Never
Around
Real
Were
Left
Listener
After
Anything
Teachers
Amount
Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.
Daniel H. Pink
Me
Business
Better
Made
Design
Dramatically
Astute
Ability
Facial
More
Observer
Studying
Attentive
Read
Improve
Improved
Trying
Listener
Much
Working
Aspect
Skills
Expressions
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
Dave Grohl
Songwriting
Like
Hand
Listener
Extending
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
David Longstreth
Music
Good
Me
Experience
Way
Has-Been
Bad
Writer
Been
Listener
Process
Whether
I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.
Dick Gephardt
Good
You
You Can Do It
Think
Unless
Something
Listener
Then
Really
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.
Donovan
Alone
You
Mind
Rest
State
Way
Kind
Introspection
Trigger
Songs
Leads
Sing
Get
Listener
Cannot
Place
Profound
Sleep
Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.
Duff McKagan
Good
You
Book
Writing
Sometimes
Tell
Inside
Record
Outside
Like
Get
Listener
Anymore
Story
Gonna
Far
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Teacher
Best
Wish
Rather
Inspires
Himself
His
Than
Listener
Teach
Who
I love what I do. I love getting to talk with these people, and I feel like I'm learning something every day. You also have to be a really good listener, which I think is an underestimated skill.
Emily Chang
Love
Good
Day
You
Learning
Every Day
People
Every
Think
Something
Feel
Like
Underestimated
Talk
Also
Getting
Listener
Which
Really
Skill
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
Erykah Badu
Love
Music
Interpretation
Say
See
Leave
Up
Listener
Fun
You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
Frank Ocean
Time
You
Song
Listening
Enough
Striking
Deliver
Put
Most
Make
Sure
Gotta
Effectively
Times
Often
Listener
Story
While
Then
Really
Whole
Keeping
Ear
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra
Respect
Song
Word
Every
Project
Throughout
Fail
Attention
Sing
Done
Listener
Anything
Cannot
Note
Paid
Career
There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert listener, and there's a waiting for it to happen: a waiting for the horn to fluff; a waiting for the strings to become ragged; a waiting for the conductor to forget the subdivide, you know? And it's dreadful!
Glenn Gould
You
Waiting
Become
Lust
Strings
Dreadful
Horn
Almost
Sadistic
Know
Overcomes
Concert
Blood
Very
Conductor
Curious
Forget
Listener
Happen
Ragged
My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.
Henry Rollins
Work
Me
Mother
First
Band
Doors
Gave
Later
Would
Eclectic
Records
Had
Look
Got
How
Passed
Hear
Years
Very
Listener
After
Interest
Apartment
Used
Who
Expressed
Ever
Bring
Album
Albums
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Ian Frazier
Funny
You
Yourself
Humor
Important
Think
Supply
Reader
Get
Listener
Things
Chance
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
J. Cole
Try
Fans
Care
Pay
Pay Attention
Lyrics
Rap
Out
About
Write
Attention
Mainstream
Know
Without
Selling
Listener
Average
Conscious
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
James Earl Jones
Good
You
Word
Become
Mute
One-Way
Written
Written Word
Sound
Listener
Appreciate
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
James Mercer
Music
Silly
About
Silly Things
Know
Sort
Am
Lot
Bands
Listener
Fan
Many
Things
Thinks
I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.
Jane Fallon
Good
You
People
Own
Think
Other
Relationships
Say
About
Makes
Got
Listener
Much
Your
As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.
Jason Moran
People
Sometimes
Looking
Action
Resonates
Our
Fats
Tell
Has-Been
Kind
Lift
Excites
Almost
Know
Him
Knows
Within
How
Go
Been
Person
Decades
Listener
Story
Us
Molecules
Who
Deeply
Need
Core
I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.
Jenny Lewis
Music
Me
People
Fluid
Will
Record
React
How
Up
Listener
Process
Really
Next
Imagine
I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.
Jens Lekman
Thoughts
You
Dark
Dance
Responsibility
Think
Complete
Way
Dread
Out
Open
Leave
Listener
Want
Door
Little
Depressing
Your
It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.
Jim Sullivan
Music
Good
Gives
Good Workout
Does
Same
Listen
Listener
Us
Workout
Play
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