Marina Abramovic Quotes

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

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!

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

I entertain more than just sayin', 'oh that's a female rapper,' or 'oh, that's a rapper,' period.' But, me, I put out music, and when I put it out, I also entertain on Twitter. I entertain on stage. I entertain talking to people.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

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

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

Even though I perform at all kinds of functions, college events are always my favourite because of the kind of energy you get there.

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

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird immediacy that's, for me, really invigorating, and it just feels really rewarding.

The performance of Carnatic music is multi-dimensional and layered. A performance is at once an artiste's cathartic process of personal exploration and an open energy exchange with the audience: a release and a conversation.

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.