Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

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

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

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

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

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

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

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

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

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.