Kate Voegele Quotes

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

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.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

My main goal is to connect with the crowd. I leave room for improv. Whatever happens, happens. When I bring my band with me, it turns into the Craig Robinson comedy dance party.

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.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set's a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

When we perform music at TV shows, we always try to do something that's not scripted because anything that's a surprise for the audience and the crew and the other performers, it works better on camera and for the people back home, too.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.

I would like to perform at the Nassau Coliseum; that's the goal.

I'm in a band, I sing live.

I love doing concerts, and I think my songs get another expression and energy when they are being played live.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.