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Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... — Jesse Ventura

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

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. — Pam Brown

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. — Roger Sessions

Beside every great writer is a great listener. — Nanette L. Avery

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

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

Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn. — Fredio Samples

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener. — Billy Graham

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener. — Alan Lowenthal

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling. — Clint Eastwood

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words. — Susan Sontag

The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The — Amy Tan

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. — Katherine Whitehorn

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener. — Ruth Bernhard

Disclosing his wound to his listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river. — Hermann Hesse

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. — Kelly Jones

The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke. — Paul Theroux

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener — Antonia Michaelis

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally. — Ken Hill

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. — Morrissey

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. — Margery Wilson

I'm a darned good listener. — Naomi Judd

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. — Ambrose Bierce

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener. — T Bone Burnett

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. — Henry Taylor

Songs are as sad as the listener. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists. — Susan RoAne

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

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship. — James E. Faust

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

It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener — Dave Burchett

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. — St. Jerome

Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death. — Loretta Chase

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. — Theodor Adorno

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

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head. — Wendell Berry

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener — Richard Branson

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. — Lisa Ling

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

If the listener is not ready for the truth, it will fall upon deaf ears. — J.R. Rain

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good — Brenda Ueland

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. — Ira Glass

Author. Listener. Voice
Together, an exquisite journey. — Xe Sands

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

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful. — Wynonna Judd

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician — Wynton Marsalis

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. — John Coltrane

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. — Wilson Mizner

I am a listener; I can hear love and that is essential. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

O, what a joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to its highest pitch without hazard of a listener! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. — Billy Joel

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener. — Nancy Farmer

Be a good listener ... It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard. — Wayne Dyer

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

The more music you make, the better listener you become. — Graham English

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus

I am not an original thinker - but I am an original listener.) — Aravind Adiga

I'm more of a listener than a talker. — Norman Reedus

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens

There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. — Erin Morgenstern

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too. — Jazmine Sullivan

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. — Jimmy Buffett

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. — Jodi Picoult

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

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

in order to be an effective communicator: you must be a keen listener and a keen observer. Let — Alex Malley

I think a good director is a good listener. — Denis Villeneuve

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. — Henry Threadgill

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up. — Walt Disney

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking. — Brad Listi

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener. — Joshua Bell

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. — Isaac Stern

Be a good listener, so your spoken words may be appropriate — Emmanuel Aluko

...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener. — Joshilyn Jackson

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener! — Steve Martin

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person. — Kevin Stirtz

The best listeners listen between the lines. — Nina Malkin

Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry. — Anonymous

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher. — Richard Strauss

Nothing listens as well as a blank page. — Shaun Hick

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time. — Lisa Randall

Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you'd rather ignore. — V.C. Andrews

In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience. — Sandra Leanne Bosacki

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it. — St. Vincent

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin

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

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway. — Joe Sacco

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. — Dale Carnegie

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener. — Montserrat Caballe

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

The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause. — George R R Martin