Roop Durgapal Quotes

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

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.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

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

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 really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

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.

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

We're entertainers, not just singers!

No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.

Being able to control a live crowd at the ESPYs, that's fun.

I've been on stage since I was nine years old, and I kind of stumbled into the world of hosting. That, to me, was the thing I had to build a skill set for.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.