Quotes About Live

'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The solo record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

I'm very much of that old-school mentality of believing that if it works with an acoustic guitar and a vocal, then it should work within any format - and especially when most of my live work is just guitar and vocals, so it really does have to work with only that.

I want to be able to show my vocals off and when I do do live performances, I'm going to do some acoustics just with a guitar and a stripped back version.

Vogue has always loved the design and structure of bridges and she loves Albert Bridge, which we live right next to.

There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like 'Eurovision.' Anything could literally happen.

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

I love London, and London loves me! I adore the dry sense of humor there, and the way they live like there is no tomorrow.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

It is amazing to sing in front of a live audience. It is incredible. The energy is awesome.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

So long as the basic rights of men are denied in any substantial portion of the earth, men everywhere must live in fear of their own rights and their own security," Truman said.

we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise.

I saw it all of a sudden. That whether I liked it or not, the survivor and the artist was me, not her. We're all conditioned to think of our children as more important than us, you know, and to live vicariously through them. All of a sudden I was sick of that kind of thinking. I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but I'm alive now. And I can live deliberately. I've paid the price, I've done the work, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1939-1940). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently.