Quotes About Performance

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

I intend to put them on the charts.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.