Audience Quotes

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

The audience requires not information but drama.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

What is there to say about ChUC other than it's a comedy show done the right way in the right space. Fantastic comics, welcoming audience. Always great.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

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.

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

I want to show audiences I can act.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

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.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.