Alfred Jarry Quotes

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Music will never stop - it can never stop. I will continue to sing for my fans till the end of time.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

I think the crowds in Europe are songwriter crowds. Like, they are a fan of the words, and they're there to listen. An American crowd, they're there to get rowdy, man. And I love both.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

Every show with my Jazzmaster is like a new show.

I've just had this idea pop in my head of trying to learn a new song every da, and try and play it that night. That's been fun for me because it's a little bit of a scary adventure, playing a song for the first time in front of people and letting it just be what it is.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

There's always so much energy from me and my band. Lots of fun and twists in each song.