Roland Orzabal Quotes

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

I love '80s and '90s music.

I love '80s beats; everyone does.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of like a dream come true. And now, Guitar Hero, I can't do that anymore. It's nothing like doing it on stage. I kinda wish I had a fake band, and we could go on tour.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.