Audience Quotes - Page 19

• The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

  Brian May

  Band, Size, Kind

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• Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Mtv, Moguls

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.

  John Fairclough

  Play, Giving, Trying

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• In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Fire, Theatre

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• The States still has the best audiences by far.

  Robin Trower

  States, Stills

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• Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

  Henry Rollins

  Attention, Band, Littles

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• Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

  Henry Rollins

  Bunch

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• Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

  John C. Reilly

  Laughing, Shy, Body

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• Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

  George Carlin

  Laughing, Comedian

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• President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speaks German and a president who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that's primarily Spanish.

  Jay Leno

  California, Speak English, Trying

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• 'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

  Theodore Bikel

  Play, Green, Wonderful

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• When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Giving, Joy, Teeth

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

  Bernie Mac

  Needs, Want, Knows

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• I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Tvs, Insult

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• I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

  Bernie Mac

  Selfish, Mistake, Frustrated

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• At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Battle, Band, Loser

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• Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

  Bob Newhart

  Numbers, Routine, Paper

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• The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Crazy, Fighting, Cutting

  "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans". Book by Louis Armstrong, 1954.

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• 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 artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

  Artie Shaw

  Writing, Artist, Misunderstood

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• It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

  Doug Benson

  Comedy, Reactions, Easier

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• Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

  Miles Davis

  Men, Thinking, Sight

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• I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Men, White Man

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• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  Nat King Cole

  Taste, Analyze This

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• I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, School, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

  Carrot Top

  House, Towns, Watches

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