Definition of Listener

Listener

One who listens; a hearkener.

Related Definitions:

Hearkener, One, Who

Listener Quotations

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
Jimmy Buffett

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Kelly Jones

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
Jacqueline Bisset

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
Erykah Badu

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn

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

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

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.
Tori Amos

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
Sheryl Crow

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.
Morris Hite

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
Patrick Stewart

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.
Jim Sullivan

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.
Jim Sullivan

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

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

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.
Leo Ornstein

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

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
Bob Edwards

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.
Diana Krall

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

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
Bob Edwards

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.
Wynonna Judd

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
Russell Banks

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.
Kimbra

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Listener Translations

listener in Dutch is luisteraar, toehoorder
listener in Italian is ascoltatore, ascoltatore
listener in Latin is auditor
listener in Portuguese is ouvinte
listener in Spanish is oidor, oyente
listener in Swedish is lyssnare

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