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Quotes About Stage

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
~ Wayne Shorter
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
~ Gioacchino Rossini
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
~ Buddy Guy
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
~ James Brown
My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.
~ Garth Brooks
When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.
~ Aaron Dontez Yates
Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.
~ Taeyang
Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.
~ Ella Henderson
When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
~ Victor Borge
I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.
~ Joe Jonas
I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.
~ Ginuwine
Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
~ Perry Farrell
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
~ Sir Arthur Sullivan
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
~ John Philip Sousa
It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.
~ Steve Morse
There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.
~ Kim Gordon
I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
~ David Byrne
I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
~ Yelawolf
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
~ Tony Bennett
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
~ James Brown
I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.
~ Donny Osmond
My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.
~ Lady Gaga
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
~ Steven Curtis Chapman
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
~ Colin Wilson