Juliette Lewis Quotes

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It's really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

There's a romance and power to live theater.

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.

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

I've always felt that if people just came to one of my gigs, all would be revealed.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird immediacy that's, for me, really invigorating, and it just feels really rewarding.

Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.