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I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation. -- Jason Alexander
Music is a performance and needs the audience. -- Michael Tippett
When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience. -- Sade Adu
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. -- Archie Shepp
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. -- Michael Franti
Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you. -- Chet Faker
Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music. -- Melanie Fiona
We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too. -- Benny Anderson
I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit? -- Doc Watson
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience. -- Billy Corgan
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble. -- Charles Hazlewood
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard. -- Iggy Pop
Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores. -- Marco Beltrami
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. -- Karen DeCrow
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction. -- Ron Moody
I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible. -- David Sanborn
People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music. -- Eric Lewis
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy. -- Eddie Vedder
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience. -- Maya Beiser
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. -- Al Jarreau
I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience. -- Brandy Clark
Play your music whether you have audience or not! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. -- Heavy D
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. -- Emanuel Ax
The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. -- Unarine Ramaru
I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of. -- Eddie Vedder
I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible. -- Lesley Garrett
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. -- Branford Marsalis
In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. -- David Cassidy
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -- Walter Lippmann
Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience -- John McLaughlin
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. -- Brian May
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. -- Bruce Springsteen
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me. -- Carter Burwell
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things. -- Scott Avett
Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. -- Jeff Tweedy
It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that. -- Bob Lefsetz
I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global. -- DJ Spooky
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. -- Pat Metheny
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired. -- Les Paul
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. -- Sri Aurobindo
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience. -- Richard Strauss
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. -- Gustav Mahler
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. -- Alfred Jarry
Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment. -- Paul Morley
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience. -- Simon McBurney
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations -- Alfred Jarry
I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music. -- Glenn Frey
The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience. -- Taraka Larson
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one. -- Igor Stravinsky
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years. -- Steve Earle
I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain. -- John C. Reilly
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. -- Leila Josefowicz
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music. -- Peter Tosh
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form. -- Jonathan Lethem
I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that. -- Panda Bear
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other. -- Trey Anastasio
What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines. -- Taylor Ho Bynum
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around. -- G-Eazy
Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll. -- Gail Zappa
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music. -- Rokia Traore
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people. -- Jhene Aiko
I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment -- Jeff Coffin
What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience. -- Lester Bowie
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. -- Don Ellis
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. -- Marsha Norman
Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be. -- Talib Kweli
We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's 'Southland' Style'... and I love it! -- Shawn Hatosy
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves. -- Dweezil Zappa
I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans. -- Sizzla
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist. -- Tyler Farr
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer. -- Bear McCreary
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. -- Eduard Hanslick
I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top. -- Mitch Hewer
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that. -- George Michael
You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible. -- Yukimi Nagano
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience. -- Sir Arthur Sullivan
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that. -- Eric Fischl
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music. -- Andrea Bocelli
I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top. -- Mitch Hewer

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