Quotes About Performance

I had a dream I was onstage naked and I forgot how to play the songs.

It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.

I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking.

It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.

When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'

Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.

This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

When people hear you singing songs which are done as playback, they don't see you. But when you perform live, they expect you to be interacting with them.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

Generally a heroine appears in a couple of songs in skimpy costumes and disappears. I am fortunate to do such a lengthy role in 'Dhanam.'

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

I still like to play songs from my Silk Route days at concerts.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy with the way they are on record, and I get to hear them be reinterpreted by the live band? That's kind of the icing on the cake. It's the best.