Quotes About Performance

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

The Boston run of 'Lolita, My Love' ended after a mere nine performances - though one of them was recorded at decent enough quality to be preserved by the New York Public Library.

I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.

Under my real name, Pepe Sosa, I recorded 'El Mundo' by Jimmy Fontana and 'Ma Vie' by Alain Barrier.

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

I've only recorded my own songs. I don't consider myself a great singer, so I wouldn't be comfortable interpreting other people's songs.

Actually, have you ever heard Sylvester's live version of 'Mighty Real' that was recorded in San Francisco? If I listen to that, I never fail to get goose bumps all over. I go crazy. That song just makes me so emotional.

It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audience paying to hear the music that you've recorded.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I don't do any special preparations before recording any number, nothing like deep breathing or meditation.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.