Bernard Sumner Quotes

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

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.

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

I do my best creating on stage.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

My heart and soul is still music.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

I'm here to sing.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.