Beth Hart Quotes

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

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

I feel like I've gotten myself comfortable making beats in front of people, so like, if I'm in a big room of people, I'm not like, nervous. I wanna be able to make beats on the spot.

I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

I like to improvise.

Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.

I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.