Anna Netrebko Quotes

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

I'll die on the stage, man.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

If you don't play with intensity in this league, you're going to get embarrassed. Without hard work, you don't have a chance.

Listen, I'm a performer, and all I'm worried about is just performing and just doing... This is what makes me happy, so no matter what, I'm going to give it my best shot, and I'm going to put myself all out there and give it 100%, and whatever happens, happens.

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

Going onstage is like going into battle. You're ultimately there to win. It's driven and fuelled by passion and a desire to do it.

And when I hang up my boots and gloves at the end, I want to tell myself I gave everything to the sport.

Once you're out there in front of people, I don't think there's any choice than to just give it your all.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.