Arturo O'Farrill Quotes

I go and see music all the time.

I saw Cheap Trick play 'In Color,' and it was awesome.

There's so many great things that happened at the Grand Ole Opry in 50 years. You get the chance to go out and visit with your peers. You get a chance to sing your song and say hello to so many friends and neighbors and all that you have. It's just - well, it's a second home.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

I love playing shows. That's the time I have to really share what I am about.

I really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.

I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.

I love to perform. I love live shows.

I just really like performing for different crowds and seeing different places.

It's been really cool to go to places I've never been to around the country and performing for people and bringing a fun show to entertain folks.

The choir tries to perform for everyone. It enables us to be very diversified with our audiences.

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

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

I love playing live.

I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within.

I think there's this primal need to go to a show when you're a rock fan. And it's about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.

Go on stage and stomp my foot on stage and play my guitar and sing my guts out because I love to entertain people. That's what makes me happy.

Music is part of our culture.