Audience Quotes
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The web really does make the music audience a global community - when I send a tweet, I get responses from Kansas City all the way to Singapore. It's changed my goals as far as touring goes. I wanna play everywhere now.
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
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It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.
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I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.
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I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
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I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.
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I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
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One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
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I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
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I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.
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It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.
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I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
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I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.
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With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.
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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
