Taylor Swift Quotes

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

And the live show is still our main thing.

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

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

I actually did my first tour at the age of 10 with my dad, and it was as a country singer. We toured through Alaska, and he took me to sing at places like county fairs, hoedowns, backyard barbecues, you name it. We were usually passing around the hat for gas money to get to the next gig.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.