Anytime you can get the crowd to be a factor, kudos to the crowd.
My parents aren’t the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I’d be like, ‘I’m gonna bomb.’
Playing for someone else’s crowd is always difficult for any band.
I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you’re going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.
Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I’m going to be here for a long time.
Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.
You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
I try to live in the moment. When you’re in a singles match, you’re in there, and the guy’s on top of you, and you’re in a hold, and you’re being smothered: You’re in the fight at all times. But when we’re doing these team fights, you have a little time to take in the moment and just absorb the energy of the crowd.
I’m not a jukebox; I don’t play exactly what the crowd wants to hear – that doesn’t make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I’d play very weird music.
As of late, I am more of a homebody. I like having people over. You can smoke in the apartment. I’m just not into going out so much. The crowd is getting younger and younger.
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
You can either go down the stage like everybody else, or you can go through the crowd like Roman Reigns. I’d take going through the crowd, the WWE Universe, every day of the week.
These thieves defend themselves by saying, ‘I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.’ Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren’t thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, ‘Really, for my own safety?’ And he said, ‘No, because the Pixies don’t do that.’
The most iconic applause I’ve ever seen is from a Michael Jackson show in Japan – his entrance is actually 15 minutes long, and the crowd is clapping the whole time.
It’s fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You’re kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it’s so compelling!
I’m quite a reserved person, but when it comes to being on stage, something just clicks, and I sort of run around like a mad man. I find myself jumping in the crowd, climbing up on things, and dancing absolutely atrociously. I like to see the whites of everybody’s eyes, jump around with everybody.
My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
The good thing about playing at home is that the crowd makes you feel that, sooner or later, you can win the game. We feel it on the pitch.
I like to say whatever comes to mind when I am in the ring and work off the reaction from the crowd.
I draw from the crowd a lot.
I’ve always loved Newcastle. Even when you’re watching their games on television, you can feel the passion of the crowd.
We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
Two’s company and three’s a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.
It’s awesome to have the crowd on your side.
The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
Every crowd is different. But that’s something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.
If you’re in front of a Ring of Honor crowd and you suck, they’ll let you know.
The crowd down in Australia is always so energetic, some of the best crowds in the world to perform in front of.
When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don’t perform at my maximal potential.
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
That was one of the great moments for me, getting a knockout in front of my home crowd in London.
When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don’t think you’ll ever see a comedian there. They’ll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
Playing in arenas, that’s very non-personal with the crowd.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
You have to take control of the crowd because there have been times when they have scared people. The ‘Bayley: This Is Your Life’ segment – the girl who was Bayley’s best friend, the crowd was yelling at her. They were like, ‘Boring, what?’
For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I loved those people.
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra – they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn’t take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it’s really fun. It kind of wows people. It’s like they’re watching magic happen right before their eyes.
I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn’t look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.
My main goal is to connect with the crowd. I leave room for improv. Whatever happens, happens. When I bring my band with me, it turns into the Craig Robinson comedy dance party.
The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people’s expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That’s how your career takes off – it’s just consistency and time.
The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.
The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.
The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.
The crowd loves a record, and if they’re gonna be standing out there in crazy, blistering heat on the 4th of July, I mean, if they’re doing it, I may as well try and give them a record.
We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.
The crowd could be tough to deal with at times, but I learned to use them and the way they behaved towards me as strong motivation.
I’d go with our dad to watch our brothers play Sunday League. When I heard all the shouts, the reaction of the crowd, I wanted it to be about me.
It’s difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.
I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that.
In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can’t fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
To fans in a festival setting it’s like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, ‘Oh, that’s my favorite song!’ everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that’s about it.
It’s strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we’re figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows – how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we’ve learned to adapt our show.
