Audience Quote by Demetri Martin

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

— Bob Mortimer

Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.

— Freddie Gibbs

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

— Nick Valensi

I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing.

— Justin Peck

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this…

— Bruce Springsteen

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

— Bernard Sahlins

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a…

— Earle Brown

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

— Frank Auerbach

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying when that's…

— Adam Wingard

I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.

— Tom Segura