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Music Audience Quotes & Sayings

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Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music. — Philip Toshio Sudo

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit? — Doc Watson

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time. — Kurt Elling

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

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

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. — Michael Franti

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number. — Elvis Presley

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. — Ambrose Bierce

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. — Branford Marsalis

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

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs. — Ornette Coleman

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience. — Mstislav Rostropovich

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience. — Richard Strauss

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. — Artie Shaw

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

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 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

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. — James Horner

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself. — Joshua Bell

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music. — John Eaton

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too. — Neil Peart

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience. — Sade Adu

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

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. — David Cassidy

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of. — Eddie Vedder

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

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences. — Miles Davis

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

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that. — Bob Lefsetz

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. — Brian May

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

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

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. — Emanuel Ax

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse

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

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you. — Chet Faker

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around. — G-Eazy

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience. — Brandy Clark

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 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

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. — Paul Desmond

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. — Archie Shepp

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience — John McLaughlin

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'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 think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global. — DJ Spooky

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on? — Robert Fripp

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

Music is a performance and needs the audience. — Michael Tippett

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me. — Carter Burwell

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

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. — Gustav Mahler

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. — Heavy D

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me. — Albert Hammond Jr.

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

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. — Oliver

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible. — Lesley Garrett

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. — Alfred Jarry

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience. — Billy Corgan

Play your music whether you have audience or not! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired. — Les Paul

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. — Jeff Tweedy

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

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

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too. — Benny Anderson

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things. — Scott Avett

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation. — Jason Alexander

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. — Bruce Springsteen

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