The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
Kirk Hammett

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Conor Oberst

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
Jerry Stiller

Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
Jerry Stiller

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
Larry Gelbart

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
Christine Lahti

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.
Robert Goulet

I do not write for an audience.
Leon Uris

It's up to the audience. It always has been.
Kate Smith

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
Brian May

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
Alice Cooper

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Alice Cooper

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.
Alice Cooper

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.
Kylie Minogue