Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
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Audience
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Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them."
Miles Davis
Musician
"We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences."
Eugene Schwartz
Playwright
"There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use."
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."
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"Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?"
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"I enjoy playing the audience like a piano."
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"If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience."
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"What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get."
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"I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?"
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"An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control."
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"And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse."
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"You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing."
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"I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things."
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"The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired."
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"Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else."
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"When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too."
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"Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to."
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"Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun."
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"When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there."
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"I don't write for a particular audience."
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"There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you."
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"If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized."
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"Convicts are the best audience I ever played for."
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"Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused."
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