Rick Nielsen Quotes

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.

I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'

When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time.

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

I can understand why rock stars are rock stars and why they play in front of people because the buzz that you get is insane. It's probably the same as when you do something on stage and you work off the audience. The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

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 hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .