Audience Quotes
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I don't really think that audiences are that much different. I think that a fan is the same whether you are from here or from Japan - you come to a show because you like the music. I don't really see much of a difference anywhere.
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I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.
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It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.
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Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
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We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.
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I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.
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Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
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There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.
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You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
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No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
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There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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When you are writing something, you can’t anticipate how an audience is going to respond and the fact that people can associate with it is very satisfying.
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Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
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I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
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Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.
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When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.
