Dierks Bentley Quotes

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

No matter how tired you get, when you get in that ring and hear that crowd road, everything will go away.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.