Mass Audience Quotes

When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.

The average commercial radio listener in America is not looking for lofty, intellectual subjects. This isn't brain surgery. It's about striking the passion of the people.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

I would go to sleep and dream about being onstage with thousands and thousands of people.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching 'Bandstand.'

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

I would rather speak to 500 men that would give me their attention that to 100,000 that would not.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.