Chris Frantz Quotes

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.