Martie Maguire Quotes

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.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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 so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

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

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.