Pankaj Tripathi Quotes

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

A campaign appearance is judged much like that of an actor. Is the performance persuasive? Not what is said, and I find that too bad.

Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that my performance took them to a trance zone, I had no idea that I can create an impact with my singing.

If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.

People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

When I'm on, people watch; people pay attention.

Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?

I feel like I grow wings on stage.

This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a human story to the best of my ability. I do not set out either to preach messages or purely to entertain.

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.

When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.

The work should talk.

I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.

I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible. Reach your audience's ears - only then can you reach their hearts.