Emily Rooney Quotes

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

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.

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

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 love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.

I'm glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that's what I hope my show does. It's almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.

I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me.

It's awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it's so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.

In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.

I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs.

There are a lot of bands coming up now that are literally thrusting their soul, their passion into something that fans can pay for a ticket to go see, and they know it's going to be awe-inspiring.