Michael Tippett Quotes

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

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

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

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

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.