Audience Quote by Marya Mannes

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

— Les Paul

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

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and…

— Mike Figgis

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

— Charles Hazlewood

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

I think our particular sound has come by just not adhering to any specific sound. For us, it's about the song, and being able…

— Nate Ruess

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians…

— Hamid Drake

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

— Samuel Barber

With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance.…

— Ben Howard

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

— Carrie Brownstein

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

— David Sanborn