About Quote by Charles Hazlewood

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

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

— Les Paul

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not…

— Steven Wilson

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians…

— Hamid Drake

My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience…

— Michael Hersch

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that…

— Jerome Kern

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording,…

— Jason Robert Brown

“Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience? Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the…

— Amanda Palmer

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

— Igor Stravinsky

Music will always have an audience, no matter how many artists there are.

— Jonita Gandhi

In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and…

— Barbara Harbach