Chris Milk Quotes

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!

The last Company Flow reunion show in New York City was pretty insane. Everybody knew all the words to every song; everybody had smiles on their faces. Those shows are what you hope for every time you get on the stage.

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

Live music is better.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.

Glasgow Barrowlands is the greatest concert venue in the world.

My first concert was Pantera.

You see some people on stage today, and they have these huge ear monitors.

A lot of bands, they take a lot of planning to do a live record. They have to hire a crew, and they have to have a recording truck and all this equipment, and they record every single show.

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

There is really nothing like seeing a live stage performance.