Listeners Quotes - Page 4

• A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

  Linda Hogan

  Years, Listening Ear, Silence

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

  Kimbra

  Journey, Ideas, Giving

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• I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

  Arvo Part

  Light, White, Spirit

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• The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.

  Raymond Scott

  Mind, Receiving, Sound

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Becoming, Influence

  John C. Maxwell (2009). “Maxwell 2-in-1 Becoming a Person of Influence & Talent Is Never Enough”, p.274, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.

  John C. Maxwell

  Stronger, Levels, Able

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

  John C. Maxwell

  Energy, Needs, Attention

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Wilferd Peterson

  Leadership, Mind, Way

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• To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Knowing

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• Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.

  Raymond Scott

  Thinking, Years, Perfect

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

  Emanuel Ax

  Trying, Movement, Applause

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

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Action, Failing

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• On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

  Agnes Obel

  Thinking, Perspective, Feelings

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• A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Moving, Musician, Revealing

  "Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland". Book by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60, 1956.

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• 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 are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Agreement, Bird

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• There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Writing, Stories

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.48, Macmillan

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• The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

  Justin Sane

  Reality, Issues, Iphone

  "Anti-Flag’s General Strike Is a Soundtrack for Occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

  Tim McIlrath

  Communication, People, Levels

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• All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

  Emanuel Ax

  Mean, Likes, Should

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• Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

  Luigi Russolo

  Boredom, Effort, Musical

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Trying, Sentimental

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• I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

  Rakim

  Talking, Kind, Rhyme

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

  Pliny the Younger

  Excuse, Produce, Reader

  Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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