Quotes About Audience

Drake come out there and he play his music and everybody just go crazy. Michael Jackson come out there and breathe.

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

Sometimes in golf I've got 10,000 people watching me. Cameras are easy. Doing the Jay Leno show was easy.

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

In 'The Beginning,' each one of us was introduced, but the audience didn't know our back stories and the drama. You wouldn't have known how deep Bhallaladeva's jealousy for Baahubali is.

Anyway, you know, when Richard Meltzer said rock and roll died in '68, what he means is Jefferson Airplane were no longer his buddies, that's what he really means. He means it in a political way: that was when the artists and the audience found themselves on different levels.

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.

We're expanding 'Ebony' and 'Jet' on the digital side to attract and maintain a younger audience.

I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.

I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.

I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.