Carly Simon Quotes

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

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

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

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.

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

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

I love performing. The sounds coming at me are dynamic, colorful and multi-layered. The energy from the musicians around me and from the audience is a swirl of excitement. Sometimes, I can feel the stage vibrating under my feet.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don't. The point is, you'll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it's really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden!

Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong connection to the song when I'm performing it.

At the end of the day, I am singing the composer's creation, and I follow the instructions given to me. What I feel may be a right take may not work for the composer or his vision on how he thinks the song should sound.

Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.