Bobby Short Quotes

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

I go and see music all the time.

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

We did 300 shows in our first two years.

Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

I've only done karaoke twice in my life.

We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.

I had a lot of fun during all the performances, but the most memorable one was 'Born This Way.' Lady Gaga is one of our favorite artists, and I remember the Once in America had the best reaction when we performed that song for them.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

In karaoke, you don't choose the song; the song chooses you.

My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down.

There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to me, that I just can't get enough of.

Getting out and being able to present a concert is invigorating.

I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'