Johnny Flynn Quotes

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

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've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

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

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.

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.

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

I think we've always been better live.

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.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

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!

For me, I feel most at home when I'm playing live.

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of people.