Quotes About Performance

If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it.

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.