Quotes About Engagement

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

It's fun playing small venues.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.

You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.

I feel like I'm never playing the same sized venues within two or three shows. It keeps me and the band fit in a way. It keeps us on our toes just because you don't get used to one size and one energy. It's good to switch it up.

I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes.

For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that's my take on it, but it just depends what you're going for.

I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

A bit of a verbal challenge actually makes me switch on a bit more and gets me in for the fight.

As a frequent rider of the subway myself, I cannot count the number of times I have had to personally intercede in a physical or verbal altercation, whether on the platform or in a subway car.

Young citizens on the verge of becoming adults deserve a real say in the world they will inherit.

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to 'Blinded by the Light', the LyricWiki community delivers.

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

I'd love to be on a show like 'ER.' Just watching it is like, 'Phew.' I loved watching 'Veronica Mars.' 'Buffy' was a big... I loved 'Buffy.' I would go out of my way to watch 'Buffy.'

Versatility is the key today. We have a smart audience today; if you keep doing same stuff, nobody is going to watch you.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.