120 Listener Quotes for You to Enjoy

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand. Simon Sinek

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. Sonia Sotomayor

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. Terry Gross

A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the heart of what's being said, what you as a reader or listener are being asked to feel or notice. Tracy K. Smith

As a drummer, I always approach things as, 'I want to play just enough to keep other drummers interested, but not enough to go over the average listener's head.' Vinnie Paul

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I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer. Wes Borland

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Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. William T. Vollmann

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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems. Yusef Komunyakaa

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I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and tragedy, in a way that sort of expresses what the listener or the beholder may have been feeling but was less able to communicate. Black Thought

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Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished. Mod Sun

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The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Broadcaster Must Reader Fit Fits Listener While Newspaper Program

Country music has taken so many forms, and I've always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in love with country music through Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Old Crow Medicine Show or whomever - just get in and start digging! Marty Stuart

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I wanted there to be something to fill the space and to catch the listener's ear, but I didn't want there to be any 'Virtual Self' songs that had a clearly defined vocal with lyrics and top line. If you do hear any lyrics, it's just your brain filling in the gap, because those moments are just various syllables combined. Porter Robinson

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I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I’m communicating to the listener in the future. Hildur Gudnadottir

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I'm a great listener, I'm willing to learn and a hard worker. Emma Barton

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