Taylor Swift Quotes

We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

We are nervous before every concert. I think we are the most nervous band in the world.

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.

I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.