Quotes About Audience

I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

We are literally touring the world, and people are listening to my music.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

We're known as a touring band, not a singles band.

We love performing, we love touring.

I really enjoy touring and playing music to people.

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.

My first professional fight was a tournament with maybe one or two thousand people there.

My dream is to bring a G1 tournament to the United States. I want to do a G1 in front of American crowds.

People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

I do write a lot of stuff for my tours. I think I just want to give people their money's worth. They've paid to come and see jokes so I try to give them as many as I can.

There's a club called Headliners in Chiswick where I do a lot of my warmups for tours. For me it's a nice 'big-small' room: it's a 300 seater, which feels small but you can still get big laughs.

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

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.