Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

I like the energy of live performance.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

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.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I love playing shows. That's the time I have to really share what I am about.

I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don't. The point is, you'll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it's really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden!

My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

I do my best creating on stage.

I always loved performing and being on stage.