Audience Quotes
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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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In my case, I take part in performance-oriented music and believe it is my call to show the audience something that both their eyes and ears can enjoy.
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I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.
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I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.
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One of the things that EBONY magazine has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.
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Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
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I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.
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In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.
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The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.
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I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.
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Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.
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For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.
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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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When you have an audience that embraces you that much, you really want to give them your best. It becomes a really interactive experience instead of just playing a show to random people - there's a connection.
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I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad
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The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.
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You've got to cater to the audience and have some flexibility. I don't want to box myself in. I want to make music that I like, and I like a shitload of music.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
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What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour
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With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.
