Mel Torme Quotes

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

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

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

Our show is all about energy and all about the skill, so we never have to alter it for different audiences, although maybe we might get crazier at a punk-rock show. With kids moshing and crowd-surfing, we might have to get crazy as well.

When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set's a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.

There's a different energy at one of my shows than anybody else's.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

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

Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

I really love live performing!

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

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.