Roger Taylor Quotes

Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

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

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

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

I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.

Performing is fine.

Our show is all about energy and all about the skill, so we never have to alter it for different audiences, although maybe we might get crazier at a punk-rock show. With kids moshing and crowd-surfing, we might have to get crazy as well.

I think our strongest suit is our live show.

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be and have fun on stage.