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I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

— Samuel R. Delany

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✓Similar Perspectives

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

— Anna Held

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

— Yoko Ono

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

— Joss Stone

There's nothing more instructive than the immediate response of an audience.

— Roger Bart

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

— Mike Leigh

I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else.

— PewDiePie

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

— Matthew Bourne

I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates what you prepare for them. It's very, very gratifying.

— Aretha Franklin

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

— Chelsea Handler

✗Opposing Perspectives

I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.

— Mick Foley