Ronnie Dunn Quotes

I really love headlining. Opening up is fun - getting to play for all these people who might not know you - but it's so much easier sometimes playing for people who know all your songs: you get that instant feedback.

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I like that raw energy that I get from an audience.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

I used to be a big arena person. I thought more people equaled more intensity, but smaller places are a lot more intimate, I feel more connected with the audience.

It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.

It's an honour when your audience sings along, more than they listen to you at a live gig.

I love being in a small club where everybody has a good seat, and we don't look like ants. And you can feel the audience, which makes it kind of magical, and I miss that. I guess I have the best of both worlds.

The only real satisfaction is live performances. That's when you can actually get some feedback from what you're doing. You get that artist-to-audience chemistry. I love it!

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

I don't want to stand on stage night after night, without being on my face beforehand truly crying out for those that have come to the event.

You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about.

I believe in 'Hard Livin'.' The song has a lot of potential. I sang it on the road for about a year before I put it on an album. The crowds really seemed to like it.

It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.

I'd rather do smaller theaters, because it's more fun for the audience and more fun for me. I like to build up demand.