Schuyler Fisk Quotes

I really love headlining. Opening up is fun - getting to play for all these people who might not know you - but it's so much easier sometimes playing for people who know all your songs: you get that instant feedback.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

At a festival, the people there are not all your fans, and this gives me a chance to win over new people. I look at it as a challenge.

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.

But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.

Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.

I enjoy, always, the feeling of being in front of an audience.