Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Las Vegas audiences are swingers. They're drinkers and swingers, and they like to have a good time and party. I never had a bad audience in my career. Sometimes it may take a little longer to get them, you know. But I would get them. I'd get standing ovations... Everything is attitude. It's very important to always like what you're doing.

I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.

When you're onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

The audience has always been my best director.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.