Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

I was always an entertainer.

I do my best creating on stage.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

I love to entertain an audience.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

I love to perform live.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.