Quotes About Performance

For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, 'How would you like to be a horrible actor?' Then you say, 'All right, that sounds good. I'll do that.'

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

It sounds a cliche but when I'm on stage I'm at my most relaxed, I feel most like myself. When I have the music and the costumes and everyone else around me, that's when I feel most free.

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range is there. I make random noise and blurt out random sounds, to make sure I get rid of any bad nerves. I want to make sure to feel as confident as possible.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.