Comedy Quote by Sufjan Stevens

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

— Sufjan Stevens

Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been…

— Joan Osborne

I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop…

— Rostam Batmanglij

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

— Aaron Dontez Yates

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to,…

— Rick Derringer

Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

— Philip Toshio Sudo

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

— David Johansen

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

— Susan Ann Sulley

I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at…

— Armin van Buuren

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

But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is…

— Artie Shaw