Victoria Jackson Quotes

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

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

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows... it's the life in between. That's all I've got.

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

When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.