Adam Cole Quotes

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

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

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

It's a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.

I always get nervous when I'm performing at international shows.

A mall was something that I just used to hang out in as a kid. And then you go there, and there's 4,000 people waiting for you to perform. It's a big difference.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there's a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn't something I ever seriously considered.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.