Ringo Starr Quotes

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

I sing at home all the time with my kids and my husband, and I will write music together. It's kind of a very intimate thing for me.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.

It's difficult to explain in words, but I enjoy doing films more than theatre. It helps me in experiencing moments of truth and I can write an entire thesis on my love for the medium!

When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.

I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.

I would describe our concerts as pretty intense.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.