Bo Burnham Quotes

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

I try and put on a show for the crowd and make sure they enjoy it.

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

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

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.