If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.
The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.
I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say. . . we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.
I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.
Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.
The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
I'm dragging the audience to hell with me
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
I'm never really nervous because I've done the maximum; now it's up to the audience to do its job.