Charles Bradley Quotes

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

Once you develop a comfort level with someone, that translates on camera.

I always do my show and say hello. And a lot of people are standing around waiting to shake my hand and say thanks for, A, letting me talk to you, and letting me feel a part of what you do.

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

That audience is there for me.