Jeffrey Osborne 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.

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 enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

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 think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

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

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

Full live performances are always my favorites, and I think a lot of people's favorites too, just because you can feel the energy off the crowd and there's so much more interaction, and just everything overall is just like very hype.

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

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

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

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

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.