Howard Rheingold Quotes

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

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.

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

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

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

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'

I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

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

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I've always felt that if people just came to one of my gigs, all would be revealed.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

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

Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience.

'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.

Hosting a game show is quite interactive and non-fictional shows are a part of entertainment.