John Prine Quotes

In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

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• I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Enjoy
  • Audience
  • Being

• When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Audience

• The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Audience
  • Comedian
  • Out

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Honor

• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

• I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Audience
  • Thankful

• The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Sing

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  

  Ovid
  • She
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Pure

• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Education
  • Eyes

• When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Football

• A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Father
  • Eyes
  • Conscious

• In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Eyes
  • Games
  • Crush

• "Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

  

  John Prine
  • Eyes
  • Audience
  • Songs