Quotes About Performance

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

Some of the stuff, I absolutely don't remember recording it, it's been so long. But I do like to try to throw in something a little different for the audience once in a while. Because a lot of these people who come to see have come back many, many times.

We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we can be free onstage and in the studio recording. That way we can come up with original and creative stuff.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

What we're increasingly seeing is comics are becoming better known across the world. They're recording shows wherever they are, then putting them online for everyone. It has definitely changed in that way.

We were playing shows still when we wrote 'Phoebe' and 'Rock All Night.' We got to test those songs in a live setting, so it was nice recording them and knowing which ones really resonated with the crowd.

I loved recording 'Famous' and can't wait for everyone to hear it.

A stage play is beautiful only when it is seen as a stage play, just like you cannot get the same effect of a live Bharatanatyam performance in a recording.

When I'm on the microphone and I'm recording, or onstage, or shooting a video, I'm doing my job. When I'm not, I'm being myself.

I can still deliver behind closed doors, we just need to get a recording of the fans singing and shouting in the arena so I can hear them chanting.

When Prince and James Brown were doing live sessions... recording a band is not easy. It's all delicate, important stuff you want to make sure you're doing the right way.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.

Any aspect of life can help you be a better actor because what are we doing except living life while somebody's recording it?