Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

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.

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.

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

I'm a live performer and I love playing 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.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.

I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!

I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.

The one thing that concerts have done for me is given me the opportunity to get back to sort of do songs that I want to do. It's about enjoying yourself.

There's nothing better about being a musician than live performing.

Believe it or not, at concerts some records go off more than 'Crew' does.

I want to entertain my audience. I know when then come and see me play, if I don't do 'Swing Town,' 'Jet Airliner,' 'Take the Money and Run,' 'True Fine Love,' 'Fly Like an Eagle,' 'The Joker,' blah blah blah - if I don't do all those songs, they'll be extremely disappointed. I love to do them.

I'm glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that's what I hope my show does. It's almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley.

I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.