Ziggy Marley Quotes

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

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

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.'

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.