"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

Audience, Audiences

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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

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"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

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"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."

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"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

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"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."

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"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."

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"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."

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"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."

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"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."

Father

"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."

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"I'm one of those regular weird people."

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"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."

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"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."

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"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."

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"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."

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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."

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"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."

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