Juice Newton Quotes

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

You're in for a live band. That's really what I wanted; I wanted to put on a show for people where they could come for the gay and stay for the musicianship. It's a live show; there's some rock stuff, too. Some rock and roll. Get ready.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!

I love to perform live.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

Real entertainers love to entertain.