Cole Swindell Quotes

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

My schedule usually keeps me busy. However, I love performing on stage and I try my best to take time out for live performances.

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

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.

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

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.