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Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

— Andre Kostelanetz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

— Brigham Young

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

— A. R. Rahman

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

— Daniel Barenboim

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

— Wilson Mizner

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

— Calvin Coolidge

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

— Rachel Nichols

Sound comes out of a life experience.

— Bill Laswell

✗Opposing Perspectives

The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

— John Hughes

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

— Lewis Carroll

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

— Elmore Leonard