Quotes About Music

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always call him a legend, and I'll always respect what he did.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

I could never go onstage in denims.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.