Audience Quotes

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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… — Raymond Chandler
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want… — Joe Strummer
You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're… — Barack Obama
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William… — Lewis H. Lapham
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in… — Michael Ondaatje
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. — Kenneth Tynan
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. — Bobby McFerrin
To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play… — Kevin Spacey
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. — Unknown Author
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. — Dorothy Fields
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think the stories Hank… — Don Helms
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with… — Jackson Browne
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making… — Ann Reed
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at… — Paul Zollo
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting… — Phil Lesh
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. — Mac Barnett
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same… — John Berger
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting… — Gordon Willis

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