Porter Robinson Quotes

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

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

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

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

You can generate a phenomenal relationship with an audience. It's very gratifying, a real privilege.

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

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

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

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

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.