Mandy Harvey Quotes

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

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

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

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

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

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

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

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