Listeners Quotes

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Festus, you're such a great listener.

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

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

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.

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them.

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

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

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

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.