Quotes About Performance

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

We wanted to be successful, we wanted to shoot a video. We just wrote a song and we were like, 'OK, let's go onstage! Let's shoot a video for it!' That was always our dream... We just wanted to have fans and a crowd who would listen.

Joe Rogan has this podcast where he's talking astrophysics and lean BMI indexes and weird philosophy most of the time and yet, when you see him onstage, you're like, 'Oh, this guy is just a killer comedian.'

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

For the second album, 'Discovery,' when we had to think about doing a live show I think we were not happy with the way it would look like and sound like. We were not happy coming onstage with just two or three samplers and a few drum machines, you know?

I saw a concert with Nena singing '99 Red Balloons' on TV and I said, 'I will also go onstage and sing.'

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

Sometimes in my mind I still think I'm 16 onstage and my body tells me that I'm not 16 anymore.

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.