Mitchel Musso Quotes

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

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

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 actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.

I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

It's always fun to see fans getting into the rhythm, enjoying our performance, and seeing them sing along with us!

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

Usually, when we're performing 'What About Your Friends' or 'Waterfalls' comes on, they all know the dance. It's like a sea of TLC dancers in the audience! It's so beautiful to see. I just love it so much.

We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs.

Honey Singh has tremendous energy on stage.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It's really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.