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For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.
I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.
I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
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.
It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.
Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.
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.
I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.
I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.
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.
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use of grammar of music.
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.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
I didn't necessarily grow up with country being my first priority as a music listener. I grew up listening to classic rock and Christian music.
Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.
I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.
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.
I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.
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.
But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.
I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
I love instrumental guitar records, but I also understand that, as a listener, it can be difficult to get through a whole album of just that one thing.