Rivers Cuomo Quotes

When I bring my music to a live audience, I know right away whether it is being appreciated or not.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

You have to work the crowd.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

I understand that I'm able to connect with people; I have an emotional bonding with people. My strength lies in my ability to tell stories and to touch people's hearts and to move them.

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

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.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

I walk on a stage, and I know if it's been a good show or not. You know when it's been a good interview. No one has to tell you. You know it. You feel it. You can feel the air. You can feel everything about it when it's a good show. And you know when you've messed up.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

I can't imagine working without and audience.