Red Barber Quotes

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to it.

The most important and common thing is to be able to connect with your fans. If you can't live life, then you can't connect with the fans.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Being in front of the audience, letting my audience see me in person - it is real intimate, you get to make them laugh and cry, they get to feel you. And then afterward, we go out and do a meet-and-greet session with the fans. It was just a wonderful experience. I really, really enjoyed it.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.

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

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.