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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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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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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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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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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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.
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On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things will come around again and bands will once again want to "communicate" "ideas" with their audience, and not just content themselves with providing attitude and atmosphere with clichés on top.
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The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
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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.
