I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
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Related All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but n... DOUGLAS WOOD I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience. PATRICK WILSON Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm ge... CANDICE GLOVER It gave us a chance to first try a recording of the songs in the afternoon without an audience, then... BING CROSBY When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It&... SEAN PATRICK THOMAS I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking throu... KURT MASUR I'd never been on tour until I met the Rudimental boys. Never done a live show in front of an au... ELLA EYRE I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doin... BILL WYMAN I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch ... BEN DANIELS Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audie... JENNA ELFMAN I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up ... BILL BRYSON Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutter... WILLIAM SHATNER I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that. MICHAEL KEATON When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. DAVE VAN RONK As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy ... STEVEN WRIGHT My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if t... TRENT REZNOR As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romanti... SANJAY DUTT I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the ... ALAN RUCK There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anyt... ANDY DICK I've never sung in front of an audience before VICKY ENTWISTLE I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus... TARYN MANNING The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material righ... LEE HALL What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sin... ZELJKO IVANEK Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi... BILLY CRYSTAL I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite desc... KEVIN SPACEY There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really inte... STEVEN WRIGHT Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-Ameri... CASSANDRA WILSON 'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing insid... TRENT REZNOR I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fi... BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spirit... DAVE GAHAN I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets in... CONOR OBERST I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the pe... JOHNNY DEPP If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's ... DAVE VAN RONK I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ... VICTORIA AVEYARD It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's ... LIBBA BRAY All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newsp... DAVID STERN As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable do... SANJAY DUTT There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in rel... WOLE SOYINKA I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college... DAVID ZUCKER I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc... ED HARRIS I get to play in front of the most enthusiastic audience of all. There's nothing like playing for ki... MARK WOOD I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm i... PRINCE ROYCE The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God! DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way thro... STEVEN WRIGHT My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like t... DWIGHT YOAKAM No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into tha... MISSY ELLIOTT You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens... CHRIS CORNELL I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illus... ADRIAN TOMINE My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me. JIMMY IOVINE The only way I could play the music in front of an audience was to do illegal parties. DJ STEVE LAWLER When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein... SEAN BEAN I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I... KERRY GREENWOOD 'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle Hous... CAITLIN ROSE I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front... TROY CARTER I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy. T. C. BOYLE I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audien... AL LEWIS Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do... CARMEN ELECTRA Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that... DAVID CARRADINE I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I j... ANDREW BREITBART I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I... IAN MILLAR I was able to go on camera and become someone who didn't have those issues, ... When I was in the st... MARC SUMMERS I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blood... ANDY COHEN I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet... TRAVIS FIMMEL It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in ... RICK YUNE There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, ... RALPH MACCHIO I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memori... JIMMY FALLON Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I... JAMES TAYLOR I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as... CATHERINE MARY STEWART I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated... MAX WEINBERG There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That'... CATHERINE HICKS Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirt... ROB LOWE It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing ... DEOBIA OPAREI I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come... PAUL MICHAEL GLASER I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, ... PAUL TAYLOR As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p... STEVE EARLE Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front ... CHARLES STROSS Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue wi... SANDRA LEE Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si... ROBIN THICKE I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it'... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could dr... ALEX RODRIGUEZ The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience... DAVID STEINBERG It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white pape... HELMUT NEWTON As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; ... PETER JACKSON When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience... CHESTER BENNINGTON There's nothing like having a football coach yelling at you at homecoming in front of a bunch of... SUZAN DELBENE I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you. DAVE FINKEL I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago. HERB ALPERT I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try someth... TARAN KILLAM There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. ... MATT BOMER The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in ... TOPHER GRACE I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or blac... RUTINA WESLEY Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it&... DAVE LOMBARDO 'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it funct... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, wi... EARTHA KITT We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next... VALERIE SIMPSON The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. DEMETRI MARTIN
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I think your political ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. An... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behin... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I think politics come out of psychology. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw my... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being abl... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come f... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I was real good at music and real bad at everything else. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worr... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition. JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul... BRUCE COCKBURN There's a bright spot in every dark cloud. BRUCE BERESFORD Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin... TAMMY BRUCE Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off... TAMMY BRUCE For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be... TAMMY BRUCE Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur... TAMMY BRUCE Republicans have never been good at public relations. TAMMY BRUCE The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then ... TAMMY BRUCE From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the med... TAMMY BRUCE One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with... TAMMY BRUCE Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement. TAMMY BRUCE For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. TAMMY BRUCE The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ... TAMMY BRUCE One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. TAMMY BRUCE Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything ... TAMMY BRUCE As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I... TAMMY BRUCE The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th... TAMMY BRUCE