Jon Fishman Quotes

I like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefully I am making them forget about all their problems in the world. For however many hours they are at our show, hopefully they are going to have a great time, and it makes life a little more bearable for everybody involved.

I'm the first one in line to go watch 'Spider-Man', but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

I hope fans walk away still feeling like their batteries are charged. I want fans walking away high-fiving strangers.

Sometimes I need a pump-up song.

We want to give people positive energy and we also want to comfort people.

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just play act. And if I can bring people a moment of fun and relief in their lives, well, that's the win.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.

I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

I like for people to have fun and that comes out in the music.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.