Bonnie Tyler Quotes

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

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.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

It's an honour when your audience sings along, more than they listen to you at a live gig.

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

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!

It's very, very exciting for me to hear my songs on the radio and to play shows and have people know the words.

I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is - I don't know how to describe it.

Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

I really love headlining. Opening up is fun - getting to play for all these people who might not know you - but it's so much easier sometimes playing for people who know all your songs: you get that instant feedback.

Every time we play our music in clubs, there's such a strong reaction.