Carlene Carter Quotes

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.

Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment.

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

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.

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.