Lesley Gore Quotes

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain - real showmen that put on 'a performance' every time they walk out on stage - so it's important for me to feel like I deliver that.

As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey.

I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

I'm more than just the face at the front of a band.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

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

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

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

Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.