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Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

“An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Numbers Heard Havens Example Amount First Time Rounds Opera Listeners Repetition Variation Small Numbers Aria Handel

Author:James Fenton

“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.”

World Needs Doe Important Reason Hurt Celebrate Piano Performers Composer Listeners Builder

Author:Nils Frahm

“Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.”

Cost Listeners Flattery Flattered Flatterer

Book:The Fables of La Fontaine

Source: The Fables of La Fontaine

“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.”

People Persons Two Wanted Talking Four Heard Amount Conversation Listeners People Talking

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.”

Knows Want Speakers Listeners Nonviolent Communication Good Listener

Author:John Powell

“We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.”

“Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.”

Listeners Eavesdropping

Book:A compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages

Source: A compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”

“The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.”

Thinking Important Funny America Humorous Important Things Leaving Communicate Shirts Subtle Listeners Refrain Nuance Grabbing Unsaid Euphemism

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?”

Knows Ideas Listening Advantage Intelligent Refuse Vanity Listeners Sympathetic

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.”

People Ifs Pain Beautiful Guy Realizing Records Listeners

Author:Bill Dixon

“Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.”

Ifs Kind Littles Said Happens School Listening High School Radio Listeners Shields Little Time

Author:Billy Collins

“Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.”

Writing Mean Helping Song Singing Listeners Write Your Own

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“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.”

World Stills Ends Play Left Jazz Notes Listeners Gallery

Author:Carla Bley

“I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.”

Feelings Wanted Listeners Songwriters Viewers Storyteller

Author:Wes Borland

“I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!”

Stories Home Parent Interesting Fiction Tree Feet Brother Bears My Brother Encounters Unconscious Listeners

Author:Sharon Creech

“When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.”

Thinking Feels Mind Earth Joy Spirit Creativity Albums Aggressive Listeners Sincerely Cds

Author:George Duke

“I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.”

Limitation Interpretation Listeners Spoil

Author:David Gilmour

“I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.”

Ifs Thinking Can Do Listeners You Can Do It Good Listener

Author:Dick Gephardt

“Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.”

Heard Listeners Email Great Gifts

Author:Ellen Bass

“Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.”

Heart States Use Turns Technology Fans Customers Online Listeners Viral Offline

Author:Peter Guber

“I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.”

Knows Needs Reality Risk Let Me Photograph Radio Visuals Listeners Need You Disappointing Visual Images

Author:Terry Gross

“It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.”

Needs War Felt Huge Just One Thrive Barriers Comment Sparks Listeners Blogging

Author:Imogen Heap

“I'm a darned good listener.”

Listeners Good Listener

Author:Naomi Judd

“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.”

Thinking Want Mean Different Might Song Listeners

Author:Norah Jones

“I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.”

Should Trying Believe Able Past I Believe Reader Abstract Tension Concrete Listeners Connecting Participants

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“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.”

People Ifs Want Giving Song Imagination Too Much Figures Music Is Listeners

Author:Diana Krall

“My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.”

Mother Talking Comfortable Listeners Talkers

Author:Diane Keaton

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