Koko Taylor Quotes

Every night, I don't care if I'm doing interviews that day or photo shoots that day, what's most important is that I'm making sure I'm right and tight for the show. These people all come out to see me, so I have to perform and make sure that they never forget it.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

I just want people to focus on the performance.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

I really love live performing!

When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

I love to entertain an audience.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.