Audience Quote by Billy Ocean

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

— Dianne Reeves

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

— Les Paul

Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.

— Demis Roussos

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

— Shakira

But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Musicians are all about celebrity first and foremost, and I just can't do it. The second any sort of popularity contest comes into the…

— Aesop Rock

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper…

— Phil Elvrum

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

— Grant Evans

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance.…

— Ben Howard

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience?…

— Kiesza

A lot of people see me just as a player. Music is how I introduce my life to people.

— Marvin Bagley III