Alan Vega Quotes

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.

I'll die on the stage, man.

I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

I love being on tour. That's the best job in the world, if only I had a different body.

I'm always going to need to play in front of people.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

I think that no number of rehearsals can guarantee the outcome of a live show.

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

Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

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.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.

I love the stage more than the studio.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

I think my biggest achievement is still going out on the road and wanting to make music on the road. It doesn't matter to me that I am still travelling around because I just love everything about it, I love the lifestyle, and I love being on stage.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

Performing live can be a drag, the process that leads up to the actual performance. It's all the travel, it's working up all the details and everything, which I hate.

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

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.