The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener
Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.
Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.
The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the 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.
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!
If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener. )
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
Woman's work as a listener is never done. . . . I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.