Tech N9ne Quotes

We'd love to be playing to five or six thousand.

I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

I don't like people who make records and then don't ever perform. If you are going to make a record it's important you get out there so people can see you if they want to and get to hear you if they want to.

Pay-per-view events for us were really just another show while we were out on a road tour.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.

We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

Even the biggest bands - and I hate to break the magic - but even the band that sold out 90,000 tickets in your football stadium, they might come back two years later and do an arena. It still feels huge, but there's a difference - there's a big difference. And there's a big difference playing a 30,000-seat stadium and a 90,000.

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.

I've been in front of 60,000 people. Then there are times I've been in front of less than 100. Every single show is going to be something you remember.