Audience Quotes - Page 30

• When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Scary

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• It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

  Gary Cole

  Character, Exercise, Historical

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

  Tod Goldberg

  Giving, Expectations, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.

  T.C. Boyle

  Reading, Blow, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.

  T.C. Boyle

  Wife, Important, Cadence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for myself but my audience is anybody who knows how to read. I think a story should engage anybody who knows how to read. And I hope that my stories do, maybe on a different level for more sophisticated readers than, say, a high school kid, but still a story has got to grab you. That's why we read it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, School, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make it make sense to that language. But one thing that was really important to me was not to italicize any of the words in the languages that were in the stories, because I feel like those foreign words felt just as important and integral to the story as everything else, so I wanted it all to just exist as its own thing.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Rights

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, Imagination, Allies

  "Glenn Frey Tribute – Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

  Glenn Frey

  Powerful, Thinking, Able

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• I think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore. It's about the audience, it's about how the song has worked its way into other people's lives and that kind of keeps the meaning of the song new, because you see it reflected in other people every night.

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Night, Thinking

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• One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.

  Billy Gibbons

  Spring, Night, Texas

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

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• I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

  Panda Bear

  White, Responsible, Interest

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• I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Voice, People, Fancy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.

  Jon Bernthal

  Jobs, Thinking, Built

  Source: collider.com

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• If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

  Charlie Cox

  Character, Emotional, Good Questions

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

  St. Lucia

  Culture, Pitchforks, Developing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Recovery, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

  Jack Barakat

  Play, Nervous, Bigs

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• The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The audience can feel whether or not the artist is being genuine in their music. It's up to the artist to have the courage to reveal their truth through their songs.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Home, Writing

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Art, Would Be, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

  Gail Zappa

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Information

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

  Gail Zappa

  Live Concerts, Ideas, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Writing, Keys, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Loss, Thinking, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

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