A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
John Powell

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
Johnny Olson

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Emanuel Ax

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.
Duncan Sheik

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
Diana Krall

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
Ken Hill

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
William Hamilton Maxwell

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.
Patrick Stewart

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
Arvo Part

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
Russell Banks

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.
Roger Sessions

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
Amanda Burton

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