“The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.” FirstsHappensAudienceFiveMinutesPersonalitySillyGenerousFascinatedAcademicFive MinutesWithholding Author:Laurie Anderson
“Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.” KindShowsWould BeFilmReadingAudienceSeeingJudgingConcertsConformOrchestraSymphonySymphony Orchestras Author:Laurie Anderson
“I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.” AudienceTasteExcellent Author:Laurie Anderson
“I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."” PeopleWantPersonsDreamCasesAudienceFailingBoringPerformersThrowingTomatoesBoring Things Author:Laurie Anderson
