James Bay Quotes

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

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

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

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I think we've always been better live.

I try to do a lot of direct contact with the audience, because the audience is part of the concert, too, as much as anyone on stage, and it's a shame not to get to meet them if you get the chance.

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage.

I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.

The idea of standing five feet away from Norah Jones and listening to her sing Neil Young's 'Down By The River' was just phenomenal. I compare that to what my kids know of at a concert, which is sitting in a stadium and watching a huge screen.

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.

Some of my friends really rock out: Matt and Kim, Diplo, when RuPaul was performing. Beyonce... there's tons of people I saw perform and was like, 'I just want my crowd to be awesome like this!'

I appreciate the intimacy of a 300-to-500-person venue; it's the sweet spot for me.

I love performing. The sounds coming at me are dynamic, colorful and multi-layered. The energy from the musicians around me and from the audience is a swirl of excitement. Sometimes, I can feel the stage vibrating under my feet.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

Kasabian are wicked. They've got the hit songs, but it's the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

I've always loved to play live.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.