Quotes About Music

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.

I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of a family onstage and on the road.

When Kehlani brought me out onstage, I really enjoyed that. I was just appreciative for her to think of me and bring me out woman to woman, introducing me to a whole new audience to me. It was just showing that I was appreciated for what I'm doing, that some people mess with me, and I'm all over the place.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

I've taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I'm playing onstage, I feel like I'm still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it's like, 'Uh-oh!' It ain't pretty.

When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.