A Quote by Frank Sinatra

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Frank Sinatra

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Audience Broad Indifferent Like Most Perfect Performer World

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Frank Sinatra
American - Singer
December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

Raheem DeVaughn

I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener or audience, as long as the performer is taught to recognise the pulse of the audience.

Shankar Mahadevan

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

Laurie Anderson

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

Steve Martin

As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.

Taj Mahal

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

Daniel Day-Lewis

An audience is the perfect thing to unleash venom and hate on. It doesn't necessarily mean you hate everyone in the audience but when you've got a so-called adoring mass in front of you, it's a perfect target for that kind of disgust. Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you're venting your disgust on an audience and a lot of them keep coming back 'cos they actually like that aspect. In a way that diffuses the feeling and you don't gel the same release.

Nick Cave

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

Jason Robert Brown

It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

Henry Rollins

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Alice Cooper

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.