Jon Hopkins 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.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

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

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

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

Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.

During any performance, I love to connect with the crowd and hope fans leave my show feeling happy.

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

There's nothing like being in front of a live audience and getting that vibe from them, and I love people to join in the singing, and I love people to clap their hands.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.

Myself, I would love to record and film every performance I make, as each concert is special and unique.