Appearing Quote by Frank Sinatra

Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all…

— Bryan Batt

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the…

— Hunter Hayes

I enjoy performing outside a lot. Its a way different energy. Its pretty exciting to play a tour like Warped Toura festival audience is…

— Gym Class Heroes

“It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself springs from…

— Kate Mulgrew

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

— Raheem DeVaughn

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

— Tom Conti

What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you…

— Joel Plaskett

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

— Taraka Larson

Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would…

— Kelela

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic…

— Nick Offerman

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

— Dan Graham

“They say it's the 'me' generation. It's not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It's self-conscious. That's what it is. It's conscious…

— Bo Burnham

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up…

— Ani DiFranco

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's…

— Jack Nicholson