John Davidson Quotes

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.