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“It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.”

Real Bigs Joy Pleasure Audience Records Real Joy

Author:Martin Fry

“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.”

People Art Character Social Pleasure Fiction Audience Painting Approach Majority Crowds Narrative Visuals Plot Melody Elites Rhyme Favour Sculpture Meter Excluded Elitism Edification

Author:Steven Pinker

“First and foremost, I'd say my father, Bert Lahr ... gave me a love of theatre--its kinetic and emotional potential and its raffish backstage fun--and also set an artistic example of the importance of corrupting an audience with pleasure.”

Firsts Father Fun Pleasure Audience Example Emotional Importance Theatre Artistic

Author:John Lahr

“I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.”

Facts Turns Pleasure Audience Being True Predictions Gore

Author:Al Gore

“I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.”

Real Light Joy Song Pleasure Audience Source Commitment Pulling Strands

Author:Michael Gira

“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.”

Feels Mean Together Pleasure Responsibility Audience Enjoyment Duets

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.”

“One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.”

Belief Pleasure Acting Half Audience Theatre Arise Spectators One Half

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.”

Ifs Wells Mean Play Pleasure Audience Successful

Author:Anthony Hopkins