Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that’s too bad.
quote by John Coltrane
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Listening and thinking
A good speaker is a bad listener.
A batsman is keen in watching.
A bowler is keen in throwing.
The bad listener hardly learns.
The good listener hardly thinks.
28.03.2001, Pmdi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Pleasantries
When you meet one
You must greet
Saying good morning.
When you part
You must treat
Saying good night.
In between, you say
“How do you do? ’
The words are lifeless.
You use them heartless.
The listener knows it.
If you don’t use
The listener is hurt.
Pleasantries are ghosts
Offending in their absence.
17.03.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.
quote by Leo Ornstein
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
quote by Katharine Whitehorn
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A Poem For A Single Listener
A POEM FOR A SINGLE LISTENER
A poem for a single listener
Whose name is unknown
Whose face is unseen
But who hears
The beauty
In the world
And reads with me
The poem
Of our no longer
Being alone.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
quote by Tom T. Hall
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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.
quote by Ayumi Hamasaki
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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.
I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.
quote by Roger Sessions
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It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
quote by Kelly Jones
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
quote by Billie Joe
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.
quote by Jim Sullivan
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I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
quote by Erykah Badu
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
quote by William Jennings Bryant
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The latest one stays
I played for long a concord
But ended with a discord.
The listener turned inimical.
I played quite long a discord
But ended with a concord.
The listener was not inimical.
Stays there on a blackboard
What is written latest,
The rest gone to dust.
11.07.97
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.
quote by Leo Ornstein
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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.
quote by Diana Krall
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My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.
quote by Jim Sullivan
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Journey's End on Turtle Island
We shall walk on the water.
We shall walk on the clouds.
On this dream craft.
Called Turtle Island.
We shall follow the wind.
As it takes us on waves
of Love.
To the precipice.
Of the Cosmos.
Thus far
No farther.
Then we watch.
And wait.
With eyes wide open.
As the Listener speaks.
And the Observer
Becomes the observed.
In Spirit's Light
We Awake
Forever.
poem by Lynne FincherSpringarden
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