Audience Quotes
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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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All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
Todd Solondz
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The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.
Nushrat Bharucha
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Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.
Casey Kasem
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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
Arthur Rubinstein
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
Michael Showalter
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I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.
Frederic Chopin
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I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
Moises Arias
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Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
Seth Godin
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The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.
Renee Fleming
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Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
Julia Bacha
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.
Ellen Marlow
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Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.
Stewart Lee
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No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, "Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself." There's always someone like that.
Wayne White
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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
Steven Spielberg
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.
Tony Bennett
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We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
John Petrucci
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
Sandra Bernhard
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I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have.
Sharon Gless
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He was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
Michael Mann