Little Louie Vega Quotes

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

It's an incredible experience to interact with fans in first person, get immediate responses to your music and see the madness that your music creates.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

All our fans have great energy, and that's where we get our energy to perform. They know how to have fun with our music.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

It's so incredible performing in front of 10,000-15,000 people singing along and giving off great energy.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

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

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.