Greg Kurstin Quotes

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

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.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

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.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

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

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

A performer needs and craves a live audience.

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

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

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.