But had I not properly paid attention to the personal relationships that matter most in my life, I would have had no one to communicate with nor would I have received such heartfelt and valuable responses when I needed them most.

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At a back table in a Boston jazz club, Jones sat me down until closing and lectured me on how to develop a listening jazz life, with special attention to the lives of the musicians I interviewed because that's where the music kept coming from, their souls.

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She had been a school teacher briefly early in her life (as had I) and we discussed the reality that most listeners can only pay attention to a particular topic for no more than 15 minutes.

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