Jonas Blue Quotes

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.

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

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

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