Matt Bellamy Quotes

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

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.

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Justin Timberlake has a great live show.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

You're in for a live band. That's really what I wanted; I wanted to put on a show for people where they could come for the gay and stay for the musicianship. It's a live show; there's some rock stuff, too. Some rock and roll. Get ready.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.