I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.
I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.
Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
I love talking directly to the fans.
The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.
Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.
My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
There's a tendency to make more money at concerts. That's from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact between the artist and the audience.
That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.
Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.
I think that my fans are the most important thing in my career.
I'm not Rihanna. I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug, not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.
You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
My fans know me too well.
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
