Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.