Quotes About Audience

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

If there are groupies out there, bring 'em on, the more the merrier.

The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts have blurred. Maybe it's the globalization of fine art through the Internet - it's easy for certain groups to coalesce around a certain kind of work or medium.

People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.

I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect it has on people, there's something so powerful in that.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

Why would you have a seven-hour show? The fans are going to be so tired halfway through the show.

I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

An old ham like me needs to be on stage.

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

Clarity, especially in poetry, requires conceiving of your work as a collaborative act of imagination with the audience, thus affording them the deepest respect.

But shall I have the strength to write this book? For there is a great distance between the words we speak uninhibitedly to a friendly audience and the discipline needed to write a book. When we are lecturing, we become animated by the joy of teaching and, at times, our words think for us. But to write a book requires really serious reflection.