Avicii 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 love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

I think we've always been better live.

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.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.

The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.

My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!

There is an emotional aspect to live players that, no matter how good the samples are, you cannot replicate.

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.