Paul Simon Quotes

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live.

If you like it live, you know that you're probably going to like the record, usually.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

In music, you can't really tell who's better.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it's recorded.

I guess I prefer to play live, but I don't want to have only live CDs. I like playing live because there are alot of things that can happen. I can interact with the audience and say some things to get me in trouble. On the other hand, the studio is nice because you can really take your time and make something that you know is the best thing that you can ever do. But nothing beats being up on stage in front of all that energy.

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

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

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 love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.

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'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.