Guy Fieri Quotes

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.

I just try to keep it fresh without sacrificing funny.

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

We have not had a ton of innovation and marketing in the concert industry, much like the record industry. We have been a fairly old-school business compared to Coca-Cola and the big packaging/marketing companies.

The whole idea of performing before an audience is fun and organic.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

You see, when I go on stage I perform with just a guitar and you have to have very strong material to hold an audience from getting bored or restless. One strong way of doing that is the story because everybody will listen to a story.

Without a good story, a franchise won't work.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.

From early on... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.

In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.

SXSW is all about the music and the collaboration.

When you're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band.

I hope people can come along to see us perform and be like, 'What the hell is this?'

Fans are always in for a treat when they see us in person.

Versatility is the key today. We have a smart audience today; if you keep doing same stuff, nobody is going to watch you.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.