James Taylor Quotes

Performing live is a part of who I am.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.