Tony Bennett Quotes

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.

The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.

I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It's always been one of my aspirations.

You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

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

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

Mark my words, even if I sell out a club of 15,000 with all girls, I'm not taking my shirt off. I'm sorry. I know y'all are waiting to see the pasty stomach and everything.

When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.