Audience Quote by Dan Graham

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

— Shirley Temple

A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the…

— Erving Goffman

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

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

— Cate Blanchett

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is…

— Kenneth Ehrlich

Audiences are audiences.

— Theodore Bikel

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

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

— Seth

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact,…

— Suzanne Falter-Barns

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

— Joshua Oppenheimer

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

— Leo Kottke