Quotes About Audience

It is true that if you look exclusively to please others what you do will seldom be worth doing; but if your idea of success includes recognition, then the more you can learn imaginatively of your audience the better. If, knowing their tastes, you can give them not only what they want but something much better than they, being nonprofessionals, could imagine, you are sure of your success.

One of Lorne's pet theories had always been that Saturday Night was not so much in the business of television as it was in the business of rock and roll. The audience, the sensibility, was the same, he said, the show had simply picked up where rock in the sixties left off.

Starting to think about the viewers "out there" as different from the people inside the show was one of the early signs of how far Saturday Night had begun to stray from its original identification with its audience.

when an audience's emotions are engaged, that audience is more vulnerable to suggestion

Given the findings that television viewers enjoy violent and nonviolent programs equally (or enjoy nonviolent more than violent), how is it that media executives still follow the mantra "violence sells"? The answer: because violence brings a larger viewership

People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

In the early days of my career, I always wrote with skeptics in mind, trying to make sure they would approve of my work.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

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Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

I only come to life when there are people watching.

Friedman published a book aimed at a general audience, Capitalism and Freedom, in which he argued that personal freedom can only be assured by the free market system.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny ' then fall asleep.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.