Audience Quotes
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Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.
Renee Fleming -
It's up to the audience. It always has been.
Kate Smith
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
Warren Spector -
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
T.I. -
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence -
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Dana Spiotta -
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
Garry Wills -
I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
Walt Handelsman
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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.
Ali Akbar Khan -
People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas -
I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
Laura Benanti -
Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
Ann Miller -
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
Ian Mckellen
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I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.
Ian Mckellen -
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Ralph Fiennes -
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell -
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
Gary Lineker
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It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
Vince Gilligan -
Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
Garth Nix -
My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
Jackie Mason -
I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
Val McDermid