#listen

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#head #him #his #listener #nods

It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind. ↗

— Debbi Peterson

#amazing #blows #cadillac #comes #corner

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. ↗

— Pindar

#choose #deeds #enrich #give #great

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ↗

— Max de Pree

#cultures #holds #leaders #listened #must

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. ↗

— William Pollard

#listen #people #platform #speak #want

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ↗

— Epictetus

#listen #mouth #much #speak #twice

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it! ↗

— Jessica Sanchez

#certain way #down #feeling #i #just

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#aspect #big #big deal #bored #deal

Silence is so freaking loud ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#loud #owen #sara-dessen #silence #listening