John Legend Quotes

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

It's so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

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.

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

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

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

I love hearing my audience breathe.

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 feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

When you can connect with a live audience and you get that immediate response it's just great.

I try to do a lot of direct contact with the audience, because the audience is part of the concert, too, as much as anyone on stage, and it's a shame not to get to meet them if you get the chance.

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

For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

With Faith No More, even though we're a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience.

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

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It's really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.