Quotes About Performance

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.