Dan Hicks Quotes

At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

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!

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

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.

Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

It's awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it's so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.

I had to sing 'Snowbird' a lot. But I never tired of it, ever.

I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

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 do like performing 'I'll Take Your Man,' because that was a hard song.

As a performer, I groove to my own songs.

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

We're able to blend and rock any crowd. If you put us on a tour with Garth Brooks, we'll take his crowd too.