As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.
If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.
I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'
I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.
Never stop listening to your audience.