Kristin Chenoweth Quotes

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

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

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

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

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.

I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd. Just going out there and doing my own stuff and being in front of my own people. I love it.