Quotes About Audience

trombone—the audience is a working model in three dimensions of the music, a synesthesic transformation of materials. And of course the band is also watching the dancers, and getting ideas from the dancers' gestures. The relationship between band and audience is in that sense like the relationship between two lovers making love, where cause and effect becomes very hard to see, even impossible to call by its right name; one is literally getting down

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

How can they say Coming to a theater near you when they don't even know where you live?

The first time I ever did stand up comedy a guy yelled out "Down in front". So I just sat down and watched the rest of the movie.

I understood then why rock stars have such big egos: from the stage, the world is just one faceless, shirtless, obedient mass, as far as the eye can see.

Townshend secretly longed to be rendered irrelevant, but his audience – which stretched further into the new generation than he liked to admit – would not let him go.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

Most makers make things for a human audience. And to engage an audience you have to understand what they need.

Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work.

Long, long ago, my great mentor in graduate school, the late Darb, he said if you're writing for a popular audience, you do not start by saying, 'Consider a small, open economy..' You say, 'In Belgium.

seem to have a very wide spectrum of readers in this country," I said.

I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.