Luke Macfarlane Quotes

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

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.

For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really open myself up to the people that are there. How do I let myself feel present in the space, and how do I allow myself to get into the music and interact with the band members.

Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I've been playing music since I was born.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.