Rory Gallagher Quotes

When I bring my music to a live audience, I know right away whether it is being appreciated or not.

When you're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.

Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

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.

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

I never try and do the same show, ever. The audience controls the dynamic of the shows. Sometimes they listen, and sometimes they ask a million questions.

'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.

The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

A responsive crowd is great - they help you see new things in your comedy.

If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.

They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.