Gavin DeGraw Quotes

The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.

I love feeding off the audience, and to me, what's the point if you're not going to think of the fans. Anyone can play music in their house, but you put it out because you want interact with your fans. And, as an artist, you get so much from your fans.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

My priority doesn't lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I'm still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I've always said. It doesn't matter if it's ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

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

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

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.

I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

I feel the best part of my job is meeting my fans at my shows and seeing their faces when I'm singing to them on stage.

The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.

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

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

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!