Quotes About Audience

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.