Ms. REEVES: Well, there are a lot of songs that I've sung over the years that are songs that I was introduced to by, you know, listening to Billie Holiday and wouldn't ever touch them because, you know, you listen to 'em so much you don't want that interpretation to come out of your mouth.

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No matter what your stance is on a number of other issues, if people somehow come to believe that you don't like them or want them here, it's difficult to get them to listen to anything else.

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"Sometimes we're so focused on the long-term view that we don't even bother to listen to the quarterly results calls, if the companies even have them, " he says.

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You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing.

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