Casey Kasem Quotes

I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

I love playing for people.

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.