Steve Forbert Quotes

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

I can't imagine working without and audience.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

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

I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

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

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I'm going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

I generally enjoy talking with the audience - they give you so much. They've usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.

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

I know that out of the thousands of people who show up, maybe nine of them will actually understand what's going on stage, music-wise. But no one should be sitting down in my concert.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you're definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they're anticipating and waiting for that moment.

In places like Glasgow and Newcastle, audiences have a tradition of being amusingly combative. But they're not trying to ruin the act, they're trying to give you a challenge. It's like a cat playing with a mouse - the cat doesn't want the mouse to die, it wants to keep it alive for its own amusement and to be entertained by its struggle.