Johnny Marr Quotes

We enjoy playing small shows, big shows, whatever. There's the energy of the visual production, and all that stuff starts to happen, so when you see it come to life, it's pretty exciting.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

There's a romance and power to live theater.

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.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I do my best creating on stage.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

Music is about the performance.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I like the energy of live performance.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

And the live show is still our main thing.