Audience Quotes - Page 39

• There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and that love is something you have to reach for the next day.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Morning, Love Is, Next Day

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

  Alexis Taylor

  Night, Reality, World

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

  Alexis Taylor

  Years, Would Be, Demoralizing

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

  Bear McCreary

  Television, Film, Hours

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

  Lee Unkrich

  Responsibility, Popcorn, Sitting

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

  Tim Hetherington

  Art, Different, World

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

  Laura Mullen

  Dallas, Groups, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

  Bradford Cox

  Artist, Musician, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.

  Rokia Traore

  Successful, Thinking, Stressed

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

  Rokia Traore

  Artist

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

  Rokia Traore

  Artist, Chance, Thanks

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

  Rokia Traore

  Jobs, Mean, Artist

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

  Rokia Traore

  Dancing, Interesting, Singing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local cultures to find an audience that resonates with their music, whether local or globally.

  Kode9

  Memories, Media, Culture

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Judging, Judge Me

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

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• There are lots of things that everyone else likes that I hate. So I feel that audience rights are very important. I just want people to hear it and decide if they like it or don't like it as they would with anything else.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Hate, Rights, People

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Thinking, Our Generation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Like You, Natural

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.

  Peter Jackson

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Nice, Thinking, Doe

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We did a lot right with the voters with whom we’ve enjoyed traditional support. But we haven’t done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.

  Kevin Madden

  Support, Done, Voters

  "WTF Did We Just Do, Romney Advisor Kevin Madden?". Interview with Marin Cogan, www.gq.com. November 9, 2012.

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• For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, Thinking, Discipline

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, People, Intellectual

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

  Paul Weller

  Please Me, Play, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

  John Cleese

  Needs, Comedy, Fixed

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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