Lea Salonga Quotes

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

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.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

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 love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

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

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

I just was never into performing. It's just hard work. It's hard work.

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.