Anna Netrebko Quotes

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

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.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

I feel like I own the stage.

You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.