Avicii Quotes

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.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

At my shows, I want to be totally sharp and focused on every single song, on every single thing that I do, and plus, I have to because I'm, like, caking someone and have to run back and mix the next song... and I have so much fast, quick reflex timing.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.