Quotes About Audience

Writers often find themselves staring at the page or screen with the awful feeling that it sounds "all wrong." For whom am I writing? is the question that can help determine the appropriateness of your tone of voice.

El candidato presidencial revela un extraordinario talento para «leer» a su audiencia y dar un discurso a la medida de las esperanzas y los miedos de quienes le escuchan.

Power needs a captive audience.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Laughter is so cheap in the presence of a comedian. But happiness is so expensive to the audience and the actor himself.

Music today is based on more contracts, rather than audience, talent and entertainment.

Throw enough scientific gibberish at non-scientists and they always faltered.

Fox News would say whatever makes the most people tune into Fox News.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

I'm a 'people pleaser'—I think most performers are, and when I'm in front of an audience I'll try to make those folks happy any which way I can.

We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth, the time to tell it if we believed we did, or an audience so gullible as to accept it.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.

Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which is to keep the viewers watching so that they will be exposed to the commercials

Popular literature now depends more than ever on the wishes of the audience, not the creativity of the artist.

The invention of new and various kinds of communication has given a voice and an audience to many people whose opinions would otherwise not be solicited, and who, in fact, have little else but verbal excrement to contribute to public issues.

For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience.

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

Je pleure et c'est encore dans un théâtre que je pleure. Mes pleurs sont entendus par une foule formée de spectateurs de moi-même, qui expie avec moi les liquides engendrés par la faiblesse [...]

For literature, all the world is a stage.

The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: "My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.

Brian was constantly looking for topics that kids could relate to. Even though he was dealing in the most advanced score-charts and arrangements, he was still incredibly conscious of this commercial thing. This absolute need to relate.

Although the spitting incident was unnerving at the time, it did serve to set Roger's creative wheels spinning, and he developed the outline for a show based around the concept of an audience both physically and mentally separated from their idols. Whether the confrontation in Montreal