Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd. Just going out there and doing my own stuff and being in front of my own people. I love it.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

I feel so at home on the stage, and I love making people happy with my music. Whatever I have to go through to make that happen and get that sunshine is worth it.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

When I make eye contact with our fans while playing a gig, I seem to have the most energy.

I don't want to stand on stage night after night, without being on my face beforehand truly crying out for those that have come to the event.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

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 know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

When you go out on stage and you greet the crowd, there's nothing like it.

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

That's the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I love being on stage. I went into theater at five. I realized I really had something here.

On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.