#listener

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. ↗

— John Hall

#always #because #call #cheap #contempt

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. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#find #fixed #got #had #i

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #feel #get #i #just

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

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. ↗

— Macklemore

#editing #fine #fine line #however #i

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#concerts #feel #getting #i #i do

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#audience #encourage #everyday #everyday life #laughter

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#coming #compromises #doing #express #listener

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#aware #become #danger #experience #get

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. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#communicating #course #ends #i #listener