Theophilus London Quotes

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

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.

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

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

I miss physically going out on stage and performing. That's the ultimate high.

I really - I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.

This has not changed: always like the first time, very, very nervous. But when the music begins, you are in the music, it's a sort of transformation. Your feeling for the music is greater and has nothing to do with your nerves. You go out of yourself.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.