Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

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

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

I really love live performing!

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

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

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 still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.