Randy Houser Quotes

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we walked on that stage and did 'Looking Back to See.' Ernest Tubb introduced us at the time. I remember my knees were shaking.

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

I remember going on stage for the very first time as a solo act, I was probably, like, nine or 10 years old. And being backstage, I started having anxiety... I was literally getting sick.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.