Beth Ditto Quotes

If you like it live, you know that you're probably going to like the record, usually.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

Every show I play, 10 or 10,000 people, I want it to be the same one.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

I know that out of the thousands of people who show up, maybe nine of them will actually understand what's going on stage, music-wise. But no one should be sitting down in my concert.

I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

Of course, I love the arenas; there's a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there's something that's very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you're almost getting to know everyone in the audience.

Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it and everybody plays a long time and people really like that. But I made my living as a songwriter so I try to get to singin' and get it over with.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

I think that my performances with Led Zeppelin got better with each performance and I think that our performances as Led Zeppelin Experience have also gotten better with each show.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.

I appreciate the intimacy of a 300-to-500-person venue; it's the sweet spot for me.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

I play some places where the people are right at my feet, and you can see their expressions. It's kind of more like playing in your living room. It's almost easier to play in front of thousands of people in an arena scene, in some ways, but you don't get the personal contact.

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of people.

I used to be a big arena person. I thought more people equaled more intensity, but smaller places are a lot more intimate, I feel more connected with the audience.

A band's best and worst shows really aren't that far apart.