Jeff Gutt Quotes

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

But I'd say recording and playing on stage are two completely different things. Being up there in front of all those people is like jumping off a cliff into icy water. The recording process is a totally different energy.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Most comics' first gig is either brilliant or horrific.

As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.

I hate every moment of live performance.

I've never been good at playing live in front of people.

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

We are nervous before every concert. I think we are the most nervous band in the world.

The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.

The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.