“Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.” IfsResponsibilityAcceptingAudienceKingsExpectationsTraditionWeightEnormousConcertsTangibleAttendingCrimsonKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.” HeartLongImportantBigsAudienceGreaterSingersIntimacyExcitementGood TimesConcertsPerformersHaving A Good TimeAppearingNightclubsSaloons Author:Frank Sinatra
“I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.” ThinkingWayHardRememberAudienceSeeingIncrediblesHard TimesConcertsInvited Author:John Lurie
“I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.” GivingFeelsFacesMusicAudienceStrangeMusicianBreathsCuriousDumbConcertsGlancesIntimidatingParalyzed Author:Frederic Chopin
“[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.” GivenAudienceWingsConcertsSoarFarewell Author:Lotte Lehmann
“CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.” RealAudienceRocksGoes OnElementsConcertsPerformersBack And ForthRock Concerts Author:Chris Stein
“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.” IfsKidsYoungThreeParentSecretAudienceGenerationsFansRocksBrotherBandFollowingNeighborAppealsConcertsGatheringAntithesisSecret SocietyYounger BrotherThree GenerationsRock Concerts Author:Paul Stanley
“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've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.” IfsWantSaidPlayHappensSexAudienceCrowdsNoiseEmsConcertsStink Author:Billy Joel
“What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.” FeelingsRoomsCommonAudienceShareStageCollectivesConcertsPerformersUniting Author:Joel Plaskett
“Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.” AudienceFrontsConcertsBroadway Author:Laura Benanti
“There are times I'm completely uncomfortable with my works being performed publicly, and I haven't attended certain concerts because the prospect is akin to having a diary read on stage. But there are also situations - whether with an audience of one, or many - where the concert experience can be deeply special, and those experiences are often unpredictable, and wonderful when they occur.” CertainSituationAudienceWonderfulSpecialStageHavensUncomfortableConcertsUnpredictableDiariesAudience Of One Author:Michael Hersch