Andre Rieu Quotes

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

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

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

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

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

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.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

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

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

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

I can't imagine working without and audience.

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.

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.