Frank Iero Quotes

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

I don't even like doing drum solos live; to me, it's like, 'Ehhh.' It doesn't really interest me.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

My record company certainly wants me to play live, badly, but I have no such plans. My only motivation to do such a thing would be money, and I don't think that's a good reason to play live.

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.

I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another angle... it's something that I chose.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.