Audience Quote by Lester Bangs Download Open image “The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.” — Lester Bangs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Audience Contempt Performers Reality Sin Ultimate
“In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience” — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Once asked what he felt was the greatest sin, he answered hatred, but then added a close second was people who “put on airs”… — The Staff of the Wall Street Journal Copy Share Image
It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now. — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
For the Christian church.... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
“When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I’m not really interested in the audience’s enjoyment,' Cave mumbles once he has changed into clean pants. 'It doesn’t bother me one way or… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
There is also something excellent in every audience,the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.' — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Art", "Bop" and "rock and roll" and whatever is all just a joke and a mistake, just a hunka foolishness so stop treating it… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive. — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
