Rick Nielsen Quotes

I'm glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that's what I hope my show does. It's almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley.

I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college.

When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.

My first concert was Styx. I was in the third grade and caught a guitar pick, which I still have.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

It's always fun to see fans getting into the rhythm, enjoying our performance, and seeing them sing along with us!

I could have done a night at the O2 in London, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm not being big-headed, but for my act I can't be talking to an audience of 12,000 people. There's no intimacy.

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

My shows have never been related to my albums at all because my albums have all kinds of crazy instruments and stuff that could never be performed live. I'm used to people expecting this 12-piece band to show up with three drum sets and an accordion.

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

Obviously nobody likes it when you walk offstage, including your band.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

I saw G.G. Allin live once.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

I once nodded off during one of my own concerts. While I was playing.

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, 'Oh, my God, I hope I don't get guitar overkill.' People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I learned from watching Florida Georgia Line every night. The energy that they possess on stage, that's something that I wanted in my show.

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.