GRiZ Quotes

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

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.

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

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

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

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

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.

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 think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

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

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

I love music; it's my passion.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.