Brad Paisley Quotes

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.

I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I live in Nashville, and I love to sing. When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful, but I do live in Nashville. I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

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

I love acting on television and look forward to more roles, for sure. And I also love and need to perform live shows.

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

I am weird that I love auditioning.

I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

It's fantastic to be at the back of a theatre and to think, 'These people have come to see me.'

My choices are made out of love. When I go on stage now, I want to make people happy. I mean, when I get hecklers now, I'm nice to them!

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.