Michael Buffer Quotes

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

It's a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.

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

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

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

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

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.

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.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

It's definitely more nerve-wracking being in front of the cameras, although I'm trying to get better at it.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

So initially getting up on stage I was really nervous, I was like, 'wow, I'm going to be standing there and all these people are going to be looking at me?' But funnily enough it wasn't too traumatic. It felt quite natural because I felt I looked good and I knew how to do the poses.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.

You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

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.

I admire anyone who can walk across a stage to the mic and not trip.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

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