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.
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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.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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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'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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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.
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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.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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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.'
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think it's fair to pinpoint Asia in terms of piracy. It's a worldwide problem. With 'The Expendables 3,' piracy extended everywhere, and over 10 percent of it was in the United States. So I don't want to put my hands over my eyes. It's a shame there is no DVD business in a lot of Asia, certainly China and India.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.
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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.
