Audience Quotes
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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
Muhammad Ali
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Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.
Ben Lerner
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.
Wayne Hussey
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We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.
Emile Chartier
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Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
Mike Oldfield
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When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.
Boy George
Culture Club
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If you can't get your core audience to watch the show, it's very hard to then pull in enough people outside of your fan base to your network. The networks are just so branded now; USA can't really do a dark despairing drama and FX can't do a blue-sky show. People watch the networks they watch.
Warren Leight
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
Agnes Varda
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Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.
Sue Naegle
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When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.
Prince
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It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.
Astra Taylor
