Amit Trivedi Quotes

We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

A lot of times I play my music at shows based on the views and the streams.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around.

Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows... it's the life in between. That's all I've got.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.

I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna bring more depth to our shows if we can and do something empowering.

The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the audience.