Armin van Buuren Quotes

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

Everyone will clearly be a bit nervous and scared before going onstage. But what I do is just remember that this is my passion. Once I get on the stage and see everyone smiling and looking at me, the joy that it brings to me makes me forget all about my nerves.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

I remember my first ever gig in town, I was very nervous. I had a big red shiny face. But that all disappeared after 30 seconds and I settled down and got a great lift from that.

I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

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

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.