Quotes About Music

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.

I've lost count of how many times I have performed in Chennai.

The Apollo is where all the greats performed.

The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

I have been really fortunate to have had some amazing audiences who have just loved my music while I have performed.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.