Steve Miller Quotes

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.

I have to remember that no matter how often I perform, there are certain songs that the audience truly wants to hear, and even though I've sung it 100,000 times, it may be their first time hearing them.

If I don't try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.

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

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

I enjoy, always, the feeling of being in front of an audience.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

You really have to be a good entertainer, or the show won't work. For me, it was all about having fun with the audience, which meant that I could usually forget that the camera was there. It was kind of like being in the classroom.

The whole idea of performing before an audience is fun and organic.

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

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.