Performer Audience Quotes

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.

The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener or audience, as long as the performer is taught to recognise the pulse of the audience.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

Hey, if someone is crushing on me, and it brings them out to the show, so be it!

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.

There is nothing interesting about just seeing me doing the show then seeing the fans and how much people love me.

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.

Bruce Springsteen really got any creative person's dream career, and his good-heartedness and good-spiritedness are part of it: both because it made the people behind the scenes want to do their jobs that much better, but it also means that he connects with an audience in a way that holds them close.

Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.

I try to do a lot of direct contact with the audience, because the audience is part of the concert, too, as much as anyone on stage, and it's a shame not to get to meet them if you get the chance.