Quotes About Audience

Practise, practise, PRACTISE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practise in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

He declared he never stepped in front of the footlights without first saying to himself over and over: I love my audience. I love my audience.

Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

1. Get Attention Immediately Begin Your Talk with an Incident—Example Arouse Suspense State an Arresting Fact Ask for a Show of Hands Promise to Tell the Audience How They can Get Something They Want Use an Exhibit

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

If a book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Su público es más respetuoso que el de cualquier teatro o sala de conciertos. Eso tiene que ver con que en el circo la realidad tiene la palabra, no la apariencia. Aún sigue siendo más concebible que un señor del público le pida el programa a su vecino mientras Hamlet apuñala a Polonio, que mientras el acróbata realiza el doble salto mortal desde la cúpula.

Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story." Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The seductive love of narrative, when we ourselves are the heroes of the events which we tell, often disregards the attention due to the time and patience of the audience, and the best and wisest have yielded to its fascination.

Having a large audience does not, of course, prove that something is necessarily good, and I subscribe to the theory that only a creation that speaks to succeeding generations can truly be labeled art.

Any idea is true if it sells the books.

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

Actually, perhaps they're just trying to remind themselves where they are. After all, sitting there with Jeremy [Kyle] and his iridescent pupils glistening before them, confronted by a studio audience so ugly they'd make John Merrick spew down the inside of his face-bag, the poor sods could be forgiven for forgetting they were on national television and starting to believe they were somewhere in the bowels of hell instead.

You're concerned with the people who showed up, not the ones who didn't. So always give them a show, and never look at the empty seats!

We were a band without a radio format but not without a following. As always, our concerts were our bread and butter. We continued crisscrossing the country, playing our music and entertaining hundreds of thousands of concertgoers each year. I decided that as far as my recording career was concerned, from then on I would record whatever struck my fancy, without being concerned about it having to fit mainstream radio formats, whatever genre, whatever style.

There is an art to entertaining a crowd. If you've got a bevy of hit songs, you can entertain by simply playing them one after another. If you're a knockout in size 28 jeans who can take away the breath of the females in the audience by simply walking on the stage, you're entertaining. But since I have never fallen into either category, I have had to rely on other attributes.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

...a writer is, by trade, a talkative fellow on paper and appreciates an audience.

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude – which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with its profound irrelevance at the human level.

The studios seem to think people go to the cinema to listen. They don't. They go to watch.

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers