Robert Hilburn Quotes

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Theatre taught me to convert a scene into a vision.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

What distinguishes Vilmos Zsigmond from other cinematographers is, of course, talent but, more, physical stamina. You just can't be great without it.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.

I am not indulgent. I think constructing a scene elaborately - with art, costume, and visual drama - is not indulgence. Other people should do it, too.

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.