#listener

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about. ↗

— Norah Jones

#completely #different #i #listener #me

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners. ↗

— David Sedaris

#i #listeners #million #went

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

— Roger Sessions

#difficult #i #listener #music #sometimes

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

#creation #hear #how #important #listener

It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender! ↗

— Chely Wright

#any #better #contender #country #country radio

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#details #entrepreneurs #great #listeners #often

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

— Alan Perlis

#head #him #his #listener #nods

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal

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

#arouse #audience #cannot #feel #his

The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might give you a rose because he feels you are beautiful, or because he fancies their shade or shape or softness similar to your lips. Roses are expensive, and perhaps he wishes to show through a valuable gift that you are valuable to him. When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorn, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness. There's so many ways a thing can be interpreted. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#interpretation #significance #the-ears-of-the-listener #beauty