Dan Deacon Quotes

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you're not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You're not interested in the text, you're not interested in how it was done, and you're not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

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

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.