Audience Quotes · Page 32

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

— Marcus Aurelius

It's up to the audience. It always has been.

— Kate Smith

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

— Walter Savage Landor

The way we got our audience was very organic.

— John Popper

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

— Chris Carmack

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

— Anonymous

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

— Bobby McFerrin

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm…

— Barbra Streisand

An audience not laughing is nothing when your husband's just told you he doesn't love you any more.

— Sarah Millican

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

— Rocco DiSpirito

The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.

— Phoebe Robinson

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

— Jayne Meadows

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

— Paul Weyrich

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

— Van Morrison

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested…

— Boman Irani

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles…

— Jodi Picoult

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience…

— James Taylor

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to…

— Tyler Perry

The people need to feel the music. That's what's so important, and that's what is missing. You have to let the audience…

— Ronnie Spector

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the…

— Ambrose Bierce

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community…

— Christopher Cross

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have…

— Gwen Ifill

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can…

— F. Sionil Jose

One of the things that touches me most when I play for an audience is that although we may be unable to…

— Stephen Hough

I've thought about bands or performers who appear from nowhere: You come out of the greenroom in this secure little unit, then…

— Sue Tompkins

The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an…

— Asghar Farhadi

I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main…

— Carly Schroeder

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just…

— Q-Tip

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe…

— Walt Disney

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

— Method Man

The majority of my audience has always been women.

— Teddy Pendergrass

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

— Conor Maynard

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

— Bill Cosby

The Canadian audience is very critical, particularly of their own content.

— Dan Levy

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

— Ethan Coen

You sense when something is special, but you don't know how special it is until it's in front of an audience.

— Cynthia Erivo

“It is not about being the loudest voice in the room; it’s about being the most genuine one.”

— Calvin Niles