Audience Quote by Andy Taylor

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

While it's great to have a live interaction with the audience, you only have one chance to nail each song.

— Jonita Gandhi

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've…

— Tom Petty

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them…

— Gil Scott-Heron

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

— Dan Reynolds

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people…

— Catie Curtis

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

— Dave Keuning

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

— Justin Timberlake

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

— Rob Halford

You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about…

— Colm Wilkinson

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like…

— Chick Corea