Quotes About Performance

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You're Crying Is So Brave.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

I can't act without music very well.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

I love interpreting other people's music.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I must play the instrument I've got.

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.