Hilary Hahn Quotes

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

I always feel a little funny being in front of a lot of people trying to show them my approach to the ukulele, but I do enjoy it. I do get a little more nervous doing workshops rather than performing.

I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

This is the first time that I've performed in the Omni in long pants.

Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.