Nancy Wilson Quotes

For me, it's more about the musicianship - focusing on the guitar, playing with my band, rather than just going out and doing what anyone my age can do with backup dancers and a track.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn't be called live shows. People like AR Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Arijit Singh are the ones who hold true concerts.

We're a live band. It's what we do best.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.

Why are Franz Ferdinand the perfect live band? They just are.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.

I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.

There's nothing better than live music, I think.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were really great. I saw them live in the '90s; they were really, really good. The music is great, and the musicians are amazing.

If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.

I can rap, I can sing, I can do whatever, you know what I'm saying? I can do rock.