Quotes About Music

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.

While we are very grateful for the amount of things that we have achieved and everything that follows this, we are just four girls who always really loved music and we just enjoyed performing.

For me, the energy when I'm DJ'ing should be about the dance floor and not about the person performing.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

I like performing in front of big crowds.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

I love performing.

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

Everyone's got crazy fans! But honestly, the crazy fans are where it's at, because they know all the lyrics to the songs that you're singing, and they're dancing and having a great time. You can really enjoy performing for them, even more than you can enjoy performing for someone that's not crazy.

If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at house, and I'm in the studio or performing every night. I like Beats by Dre for headphones, and Bang & Olufsen soundsystems.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.