Dick Dale Quotes

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.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.

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.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

I live in Nashville, and I love to sing. When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful, but I do live in Nashville. I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing.

I feel like I'm always performing in Vegas around Christmastime.

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

What we do every day onstage, there's lights, there's lots of other musicians, there's an audience, there's a microphone and mic stands - layers of the onion we have to kind of hide behind.

Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back.