Sebastian Bach Quotes

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere a great power.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I think the media is a real demon.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

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.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

The only people right now capable of mobilizing the public are talk show hosts.

Television has shortened our political discourse.