Jennifer Damiano Quotes

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It's really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

When you're onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.

I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.

The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.

When you can connect with a live audience and you get that immediate response it's just great.

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

When I bring my music to a live audience, I know right away whether it is being appreciated or not.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.