Audience Quotes
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
Steve Earle
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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.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.
Gerald McRaney
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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.
Simon McBurney
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You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
Eriq La Salle
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So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!
Richard Feynman
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I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.
Cary Fukunaga
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Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes it happens to be something like a band like Nirvana or Mudhoney, and other times, its just weird noise crews that we dig up.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.
Neil Cross
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The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
Tom Lehrer
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On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
Siobhan Davies
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When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
Joyce DeWitt
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I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
Ewan McGregor
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Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.
Todd Solondz
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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.
Ricky Van Veen
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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
Carter Burwell
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin
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Nothing runs forever. How you handle it, the most important thing is how you respect your audience, how you respect your cast, and being incredibly sensitive to how you wrap up any show when it ends a successful run.
Nina Tassler
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I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
Tony Goldwyn
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Sometimes you'll play, like, a large venue - maybe an outdoor venue or something - where it's so big that you can see all of the disinterested people. You see the audience, but then behind the audience you see people eating ice cream, going for a walk.
Brian Regan
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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.
William Mapother
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I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
William S. Burroughs
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I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
Ray Romano
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The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.
Brad Williams