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I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

— Robert Palmer

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✓Similar Perspectives

You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.

— Jason Moran

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

— Richard Thompson

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

— Kathleen Edwards

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

— Sondre Lerche

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

— B. B. King

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

— Frank Black

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

— Om Puri

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

— Van Morrison

✗Opposing Perspectives

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

— Britt Daniel