Chester Bennington Quotes

I like all kinds of shows. The small shows are a totally different vibe. I don't care how many people are there as long as they're into it.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

We also tour nationally and internationally.

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.

As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.

Of course, I love the arenas; there's a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there's something that's very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you're almost getting to know everyone in the audience.

Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.