Kenny Chesney Quotes

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

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

I have just a really strong love for people when I perform. I really do.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

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

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

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.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

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.

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

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.