Shaan Quotes

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set's a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.

I really love live performing!

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it's weird to be in the same type setup as one of those. 'Cause I'm not really doing much, you know, like technically it's not that hard.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.