Audience Quote by Jerry Garcia

The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a…

— Johnny Flynn

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.

— Taeyang

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

— Joshua Oppenheimer

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

— Simon McBurney

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

— Anna Meredith

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully…

— John Eaton

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

— Robert Fripp

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting…

— Deborah Cox

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

— Kurt Elling

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

— Sean Penn

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

— Sue Tompkins