I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something. . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?
A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
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.
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.
It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.
Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
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.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
The casual listener won't be around forever.
I'm more of a listener than a talker.
Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
