Quotes About Performance

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.