Quotes about Audience

They used to have a saying among the musicians on staff when I was with him, 'Sinatra never does anything the same way once.' He was a perfectionist, he was a taskmaster and he knew exactly what it was he wanted because he understood how to deliver his message to the audience; never was there a greater example of that than that man.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.

Writing for the gallery is something that a writer must resist no matter who he is. You know the writers that are writing for their audience because they write the same book over and over again with the sort of cute things their readership likes. Serious writers write things that compel them, new challenges, new situations, and a new landscape that they have not been in before.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.