Hozier Quotes

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.

I really love playing live - it's such a gas.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think.

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

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

It's hard to pinpoint highlights on tour because they're the gigs really. The whole day becomes about the show. From the time you wake up you are slowly building up to that.

The audience just give you a kick - you know, the adrenaline.

It doesn't matter if you load it on a DVD, if you videotape it, it doesn't matter. There's nothing more exciting than being at a live show.

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.