Quotes About Listener

Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

I am a learner, my desire is to be a good listener and to have a teachable spirit in my life time.

Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

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

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

Contextualization in preaching is communicating the gospel message in ways that are understandable or appropriate to the listener's cultural context.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Il ouvre un large bec, laisse tomber sa proie. Le Renard s'en saisit, et dit : "Mon bon Monsieur, Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.

Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

He had learned in the past four years to speak only when he knew that which he was speaking about. Moreover, he had learned that silence can sometimes relax a listener into thinking that one might be intelligent.

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

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.

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

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

I'm more of a player that listens and focuses on myself in the dressing room; I don't talk much before the matches.