Kim Deal Quotes

I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

I think we've always been better live.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.