These audience quotes will inspire you. Audience the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging audience quotes, audience sayings, and audience proverbs.
Famous Audience Quotes
- “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” ~ Walter Lippmann
- “Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.” ~ James Stewart
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“Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.” ~ Fanny Brice
- “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.” ~ Billy Wilder
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“Potential audiences are real people found in real places.” ~ Suzanne Lacy
- “I love playing live, I don’t like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.” ~ Gavin Rossdale
- “Don’t cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.” ~ Ken Danby
- “Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.” ~ Jerry Garcia
- “We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.” ~ Vince McMahon
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“Now in a way, money is money, and if it’s going to increase our audience, that’s fine.” ~ Gene Ween
- “I’m perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it’s all women. I always think it’s kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.” ~ Diane Wakoski
- “The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it’s really about entertainment.” ~ Leo Kottke
- “A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.” ~ Pete Townshend
- “My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.” ~ Arthur Miller
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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.” ~ Cornelia Parker
- “A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won’t buy it; they’ll be unhappy.” ~ Dorothy Fields
- “It’s rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That’s one way of making music.” ~ Gavin Bryars
- “Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn’t do that. I just started doin’ it in front of an audience and had to deliver.” ~ David Carradine
- “An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.” ~ Igor Stravinsky
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“Inside was the second LP album of a comedian’s performance before an audience.” ~ Shelley Berman
- “I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.” ~ Jennifer Jason Leigh , Audience quotes participation
- “You’ve got to work. You’ve got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.” ~ Sam Mendes
- “Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.” ~ Lance Burton
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“The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.” ~ Herb Alpert
- “Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.” ~ Jay Asher
- “I’m playin’ music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin’ to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.” ~ Mose Allison
- “The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.” ~ Robert Englund
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“I’ve never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.” ~ David Coverdale
- “You know, we have our own audience, and it’s not like – they just know we’re not going to do certain things.” ~ Kim Gordon
- “I am evidence that you don’t have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.” ~ Leo Kottke
- “One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I’ll never give it up, is that it’s fifty percent the audience’s responsibility.” ~ William Petersen , Audience quotes love
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“I don’t write for an audience, I don’t think whether my book will sell, I don’t sell it before I finish writing it.” ~ Ann Patchett
- “If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it – and I have the tapes to prove this – it’s not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.” ~ Dave Van Ronk
- “Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they’re watching isn’t the original.” ~ Todd Solondz
- “You want the audience to be uncomfortable.” ~ Richard Thompson
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“I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.” ~ Kenny Loggins
- “It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.” ~ Maya Lin
- “All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they’re fun, but they wink at the audience and you’re really not terrified through the movie.” ~ Gina Philips
- “The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
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“applause, n. The echo of a platitude.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.” ~ George Burns
- “I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.” ~ Marsha Norman
- “Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.” ~ Linda Ronstadt
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“The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.” ~ Moses Hadas
- “I am all for art’s finding a large audience. But the way that’s happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It’s watering things down.” ~ Jerry Saltz
- “Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage – that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.” ~ Wyndham Lewis
- “An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.” ~ Eric Maisel
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“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.” ~ Jack Lemmon
- “Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man’s face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, ‘That is a fantastic brush!” ~ Robert Genn
- “An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy – and of course gives me further to fall.” ~ Selima Hill
- “The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.” ~ Treat Williams
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“A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.” ~ Robert Longo
- “The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.” ~ Al Alvarez
- “When you’re doing a series like this, you’re constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.” ~ Nicholas Lea
- “That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure… In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.” ~ Mike Svob
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“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- “Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.” ~ George Carlin
- “An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.” ~ Don Van Vliet
- “I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
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“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.” ~ Lucille Ball
- “You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.” ~ Paul Auster
- “The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.” ~ John Charles Polanyi
