Jason Aldean Quotes

I used to go to open mics in New York when I was starting out, and it was mostly just people who wanted an audience to look at them for eight minutes on a stage.

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

I don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.

People who want to do stand-up from the start - I mean that's an extremely self-centred thing to want, isn't it?

I hate karaoke. I don't want to sing karaoke, and I don't want to listen to people sing karaoke.

One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world can love you. But if you can get the majority on your side, you're really in business.

There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

I love working in front of American crowds.

It's one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.

I have the luxury of having the choice to perform and go up on stage every night.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.

I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

It's been a long time since I've done any karaoke. Probably, I actually think 'Living On a Prayer' was the last one I've done, which I'm quite embarrassed to admit, screaming it at the top of my lungs. I prefer being the one watching and egging people on.

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

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.