Quotes About Performance

As far as dream venues, I've played all the venues I'd love to play.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

As much as only playing clubs can become tedious, performing in huge venues can also become off-putting. To go from one to the other feels great. And sometimes playing clubs can be even more stressful, because you really have to think about what you're going to tell the audience between songs.

I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.

You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

You really notice how you're growing when you go on tour. To be able to tour around the world, and do bigger venues every year, is really, really cool.

I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when I'm at these venues with hundreds of people, and they're all sitting listening to my music and my jokes, I feel like I could die that day, and I would be happy.

I feel like I'm never playing the same sized venues within two or three shows. It keeps me and the band fit in a way. It keeps us on our toes just because you don't get used to one size and one energy. It's good to switch it up.

For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that's my take on it, but it just depends what you're going for.