Jeff Gutt Quotes

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

I've realized that I can do performances.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there.

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.