Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:   Audience

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.
~Janis Joplin

When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
~George Burns

Audiences have kept me alive.
~Judy Garland

EndQuote:
That audience embrace has unbelievable power.
~June Havoc

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/21:   portrait

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If what you have to say is from your deepest feelings, you’ll find an audience that responds.
~Irwin Greenberg

They stayed away in droves.
~Samuel Goldwyn

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
~Vincent van Gogh

If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you’ve done a good job
~John Peel

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I cannot convince myself that a painting is good unless it is popular. If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can’t help disliking it myself.
~Norman Rockwell

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
~Keith Richards

The audience wants you present, not perfect.
~Darren LaCroix

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.
~Johnny Cash

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
~Janis Joplin

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
~Janis Joplin

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
~Louis C K

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Posted from the Grove

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
~Howard Barker

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
~Hayao

All audiences should be slightly off balance.
~Richard Thompson

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
~Richard Thompson

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare… Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
~Alfred Hitchcock

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If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster.
~Gustav Mahler

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.
~Elvis Presley

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
~Edward Tufte

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~Sju Mil:  Fifty Miles   (10:40)   witness to a life, a meditation
https://vimeo.com/521163890

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~Minarella:  A Psychological Trick…   listener provocateur
https://medium.com/mind-cafe/a-psychological-trick-to-evoke-an-interesting-conversation-144ce6a376ae

 

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You’re assisting the audience to understand; you’re giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don’t give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it’s almost more pure. It’s a cooler thing.
~Jim Henson (of the Muppets)

If you give audiences half a chance, they’ll do half your acting for you.
~Katharine Hepburn

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
~W Somerset Maugham

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
~Eric Maisel

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.
~Mark Twain

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I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.
~Moby

If you can’t move the audience, they don’t want you.
~Teddy Pendergrass

We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.
~Jose Ferrer

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
~Billy Bob Thornton

One of my terrors is boring people.
~Fiona Rae

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
~Dorothy Sarnoff

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
~Alben W Barkley

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VIDEO:

Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
~Billy Wilder

Paint pictures that will take with the public, in other words, never paint for the few, but for the many… Some artists remain in the corner by not observing the above.
~William Sidney Mount

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised – but by things that they expect.
~Tristan Bernard

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The success of the storytellers – we’re only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience – it’s so much a part of their enjoyment.
~B D Wong

I usually don’t like to ‘spoon feed’ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
~The Weeknd

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you.
~Orson Welles

Don’t give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
~Andrew Stanton

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On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
~Anthony Quinn

It’s a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there’s a theory – sometimes it’s better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.
~Paul Thomas Anderson

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
~David Mamet

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth – and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.
~Lady Gaga

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.
~Fanny Brice

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
~Joan Baez

You are always cheating for the audience.
~William Friedkin

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If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn’t be the audience, they would be the artist.
~Alan Moore

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.
~Bob Lefsetz

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
~Mason Cooley

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u r d audience

~Tim Minchin:  Storm the Animated Movie   (10:38)    comedy or philosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

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~Omeleto: Sunday Punch   (8:56)   arguing for audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOyEzYaav0

 

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For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.
~Henry S Haskins

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
~Walter Lippmann

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
~Pete Seeger

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
~William O Douglas

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
~Jessica Savitch

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.
~Martin Scorsese

I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars
~Jay-Z

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost.
~Rubin Carter

Don’t cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.
~Ken Danby

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MUSIC: 

I’m scared of audiences.
~Adele

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
~Adam Sandler

I don’t want to be able to see the audience
~Bobby Darin

I need space between me and the audience – and the more space the better.
~Ray LaMontagne

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
~Andre Kostelanetz

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn’t there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
~Bobby McFerrin

We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
~Miles Davis

-on Cezanne…
He did not like people to watch him when he was painting… as soon as he noticed her… he packed up his things in a rage and away he went. ~Ambroise Vollard

I don’t like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.
~Dr Seuss

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When the audiences pitches in

~Bon Jovi:  Livin’on a Prayer 2012   (6:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekomXrzOF3A

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~Robbie Williams:   Angels   (Live 8 2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNl40iCABzs

 

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The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
~Emanuel Ax

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
~Simon Pegg

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
~Alfred Jarry

On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis, a sheep.
~Plutarch

Applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
~Ambrose Bierce

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The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.
~Trent Reznor

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve…
~Gene Lees

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If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
~George Carlin

Rated G is nobody gets the girl. PG is the good guy gets the girl. R is the bad guy gets the girl. XXX is everybody gets the girl.
~Author Unknown

Stereotypically speaking, feminists can’t take a joke.
:: audience boo ::
See?
~Louis C K

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I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.
~Jerry Seinfeld

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.
~Lisa Yuskavage

It’s not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan.
~Jon Stewart

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If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don’t raise your hands because I am also nearsighted.
~W H Auden

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People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.
~Doug Stanhope

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience…
~Eric Hoffer

So many artists say they’re not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
~Marina Abramovic

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.
~T F Hodge

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Old Apple Tree
© Greg Thweatt

 

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
~George Bernard Shaw

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
~Oscar Wilde

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she’s pathetic.
~Laura Vandervoort

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You cannot fool an audience.
~Marian Anderson

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.
~Billy Wilder

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
~Twyla Tharp

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
~Edgar Bergen

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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
~Quentin Tarantino

When I’m making a film, I’m the audience.
~Martin Scorsese

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
~David Fincher

There’s no thief like a bad movie.
~Sam Ewing

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I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.
~Denzel Washington

Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else’s approval.
~Pamela Anderson

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@Writers Platform

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and you’ve got an audience.
~Diogenes

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
~Annie Dillard

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.
~Carol Hovsepian

Forget the audience, make what you want to see
~Sofia Coppola

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don’t know what they’re doing. They’re in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It’s rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you’re writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you’re writing for. Yourself.
~Harper Lee

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
~David Bowie

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
~August Wilson

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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
~Peggy Noonan

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
~Archibald Philip Primrose

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Sometimes you get an audience that’s looking to just explode.
~Gerald Caiafa

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
~Victor Borge

 

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Exercise Prompt:   audience

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The hack condescends to his audience. He thinks he’s superior to them. The truth is, he’s scared to death of them… scared of being authentic in front of them… He’s afraid it won’t sell.
~Steven Pressfield

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
~Jack Lemmon

You can’t expect the audience to feel anything if you don’t.
~William Boughton

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn’t be the audience, they would be the artist.
~Alan Moore

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I’m trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.
~Dua Lipa

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet’s task to turn it into an audience.
~Franz Grillparzer

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An artist who doesn’t have any audience is not an artist.
~Rokia Traore

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
~Sarah Wayne Callies

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Usually, when we talk about creativity, it’s about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.
~Austin Kleon

There’s something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
~Anish Kapoor

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be – a constantly living thing.
~Cornelia Parker

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Dual Doggerels Dueling

The Tie That Binds

The low brow and an audience for excellence
The curious or intransigent pestilence
Peacemongers ambitions turned to militance
The rich and poor man’s unequal leverage
A world getting by on its average

Molding guilt into art makes it weighty
Finding beauty in ugly the artist’s duty
Potentials multifaceted and multifarious
Differences multitudinous and various
Yet all sit and share a favorite beverage

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Wanderlost

Stories untold to overhyped and unhinged
Stellar viewing for the star born to binge
Heroic, prosaic, praiseworthy or cringe
Bared souls to bare skin shameless and scandalous
Royally gowned down to disrobed and sandal-less
Celestial audience, motiveless, fathomless
Angelic voyeurs to our voyaging protagonists

Good and bad all needing their hugs
From the saintly departed to immoral slugs
Worthies of halo or exile or simply a shrug
Mere examples of extremity, common humanity
Cosmic eyes that espy us prize our insanity
A human being human as only humans can be

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Journey

Audience in compliance
Rebels in defiance
License to riot
Stony road of democracy
Destination: On course

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For some life is a show, and their need is to shine onstage. To others, life plays out as a game, with a need to win and someone to lose. Then there are those in the cheap seats, the audience…
from: Archipelago

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5s  &  7s

creative release
explosive raw ecstasy
craves an audience
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quiet solitude
imagination’s back yard
needs no audience
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aim low bid high, kid
audience up for auction
voters don’t come cheap

 

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Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice – for life.
~Bill C Davis

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
~Frank Capra

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
~Brian Moore

I’m a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
~Stephen Sondheim

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An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy – and of course gives me further to fall.
~Selima Hill

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I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
~Chadwick Boseman

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
~Gertrude Stein

I’m looking for the truth. The audience doesn’t come to see you, they come to see themselves.
~Julianne Moore

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it’s all over.
~Rachel Weisz

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.
~Luciano Pavarotti

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The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
~Grimes

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
~Peter Guber

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
~Edith Head

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
~Anna Held

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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
~Alan Rickman

There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.
~Julia Leigh

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No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.
Les Brown

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
~Mark Nepo

What we are looking for is Who is looking.
~St Francis of Assisi

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I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
~Alice Walker

 

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