Quotes About Audience

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.