Quotes About Openness

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

Embrace what you don't know

Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.

Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.

The day you feel that you know Everything in life Is the day you don't try to learn something new in life

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.