Josh Dun Quotes

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.

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'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

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

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

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

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.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

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.

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.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

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

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

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

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

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

I've never been good at playing live in front of people.

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.