Audience Quote by Rege-Jean Page

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't…

— Jeff Hanneman

The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just…

— David Spade

We did reach a wider audience with 'SNL,' but it's hard to know what attracts people to your band in the long run.

— Gord Downie

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other…

— Win Butler

I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it…

— Ray LaMontagne

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

— Fiona Apple

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

— Kaki King

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like…

— Chick Corea

SNL' in general, you're just watching people really take stuff and then elevate it.

— Chloe Fineman

When you get off stage, the audience should know a little bit about you. Not where you are from, but how you see the…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the…

— Brett Gelman

The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and…

— Kristen Wiig