"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

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"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

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"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."

Johnny Vegas, British Comedian

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

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"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

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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."

Rue McClanahan, American Actress

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

Antony Hewish, British Scientist

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"What I write is not for little girls."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."

Johnny Vegas, British Comedian

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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."

Mira Sorvino, American Actress

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

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"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."

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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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"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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