Glenn Hughes Quotes

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

That audience is there for me.

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

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

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

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.

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

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

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

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

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

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.

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!

I love to entertain an audience.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.