Listeners Quotes:

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

- Erin McKeown

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Sound, Range, Listeners

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

- Bob Edwards

topic: Radio, Listeners

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

- Paul Fleischman

source: Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Radio, Invisible, Listeners, Eavesdropping

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

- Lester Bowie

topic: Listeners

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

- Jean de La Fontaine

source: Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

topic: Cost, Flattery, Listeners, Flatterer, Flattered

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

topic: Narrators, Tongue, Listeners, Eagerness

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

- M. Ward

topic: Records, Turns, Listeners

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Speak, Listeners, Speakers

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

topic: Persuasive, Good Listener, Listeners

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

source: Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.), Edmund Thomas PARRIS (1836). “The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris”, p.73

topic: Doomed, Listeners

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Hands, Songwriting, Listeners

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Bores, Listeners, Speakers

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

- Richard Branson

topic: Leader, Self Improvement, Listeners

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

- David Sedaris

source: "A life in writing: David Sedaris". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

topic: Listeners, Millions

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

- Truman Capote

topic: Secret, Should, Listeners

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2012). “Switch Bitch”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Mind, Spells, Listeners, Hypnotic

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

- Wallace Stevens

source: Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.29, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

topic: Snow, Listeners

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Half, Speech, Listeners

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

- Moby

topic: Pristine, Involved, Listeners

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

- Erykah Badu

topic: Fun, Interpretation, Listeners