Listener's Role Quotes

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.

One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.