Luke Treadaway Quotes

I love to perform live.

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I've always loved to play live.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

I just love playing live.

I think we've always been better live.

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

I love seeing live music.

I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.

To perform live would be amazing; that's a huge thing to undertake.

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

It's hard to pinpoint highlights on tour because they're the gigs really. The whole day becomes about the show. From the time you wake up you are slowly building up to that.

I toured. I played, I was in that world so intensely, and then I had to bow out.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I love playing live.

I don't do much relaxing. When I'm not giving a recital I practise.

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.