Audience Quotes - Page 28

• 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 more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.

  Nick Blaemire

  Home, Important, Have Faith

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

  Adam Grant

  People, Suggestions, Target

  "Give & Take with Adam Grant, Top Contrarian Self-Help Expert". Interview with Marty Nemko, www.psychologytoday.com. December 31, 2015.

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• I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

  John Mulaney

  Ideas, Important, Firsts

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

  Roger Waters

  Imagine, Feels, I Can

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Years, Creative, Imagine

  Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Sports, Eye, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

  JJ Ramberg

  Ideas, People, Tests

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• I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

  Pixie Lott

  Honesty, Believe, Thinking

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• I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

  Jonathan Meades

  Talking, Play, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.

  Charlie Benante

  Running, Rap, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

  Roger Glover

  Song, Thinking, Excited

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.

  Susan Schneider

  Song, Stupid, Skills

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

  Henry Giroux

  Academic Freedom, Years, Lasts

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences.

  Henry Giroux

  Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience.

  Tony Visconti

  Giants, Needs, Gears

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jesus, Believe, Talking

  "Holbrook’s ‘Mark Twain’ show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.seattletimes.com. April 3, 2014.

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• It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.

  Neige

  Song, Three, Attention

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

  Hal Holbrook

  Men, Talking, Listening

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I think that the audience should not be able to tell if it is real or not real - it should be an enhanced version of reality, or an artistic view of reality, that captures not only what is physically there, but what is not visible - the mood.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Real, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Listening, Crowds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see the people who embraced it immediately and understood it and got into it. They have tracked the characters through the six episodes, so it felt that now we can launch into the journey element of it. And really explore more of the Badlands.

  Miles Millar

  Confused, Character, Journey

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

  Chali 2na

  Believer

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Prayer, Play

  Source: aalbc.com

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