Quotes About Performance

I don't have a hip-hop goal but I want to headline Bonnaroo one day.

I'm not gonna throw a Ryan Leaf bullet, but I've got a good enough arm, where I think it'll turn some heads and keep them interested.

We try not to let pressure get into our heads and play the way we usually do.

I like to dribble. I like to turn heads with the ball.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

I'm a seeker of transcendence through music, and that's kind of where I'm at with the live shows - wanting to help people get out of their heads a little bit.

While I've got my health and fitness, I'm available... except for panto, of course. Too bloody much like hard work.

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

Live music is healthy.

It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.

I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.

For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing.

When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process.

We are firm believers that the first time somebody hears a brand new song from the band, it shouldn't be on a cell phone camera with the distortion or anything where you can't make it out. We want to present it right.