Duff McKagan Quotes

It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

When it's a live performance, anything can happen.

If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.

Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.

It's the fun part of this business: you never know what your day is gonna hold. Some things could be very, very last-minute. It could be at that very last second. So, it's pretty wild, and it keeps you on your toes. That's for sure.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

You never know what's going to happen next onstage.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

I love the rush of doing live TV - you never know what will happen next.