Nancy Duarte Quotes

For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

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.

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.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

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'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.