There are so many people in film and television that get…

There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records,…

— George Harrison

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up…

— Ani DiFranco

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic…

— Nick Offerman

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

— Taraka Larson

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the…

— Hunter Hayes

I enjoy performing outside a lot. Its a way different energy. Its pretty exciting to play a tour like Warped Toura festival audience is…

— Gym Class Heroes

“It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself springs from…

— Kate Mulgrew

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

— Raheem DeVaughn

At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love…

— Frank Sinatra

What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you…

— Joel Plaskett

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would…

— Kelela

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

— Dan Graham

“They say it's the 'me' generation. It's not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It's self-conscious. That's what it is. It's conscious…

— Bo Burnham

Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all…

— Bryan Batt