Manila Luzon Quotes

Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me, and I know it. It's noticeable.

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

The audience loves it when you pay attention to details.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late night show or something. It was like, "Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you're giving to the people at home."

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.