Miles Davis Quotes

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

Once you step on stage, the people are actually looking to be transformed. That's why they showed up; that's why they spent some money. And great performances do that.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

I try and put on a show for the crowd and make sure they enjoy it.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

I just want people to focus on the performance.