Andy Biersack Quotes

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

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

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Making dance music was one of the best things I did in my life. I traveled the world; I met the most amazing fans. I got a lot of respect from doing it.