Kevin Jonas Quotes

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

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!

In a live environment, the more bodies you put in a room, the more energy there will be. That's a real big payoff. That's really important, the live show, it's a big cycle of energy. If the audience is boring, it's tough to get excited about it.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

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.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

There's nothing like being in front of a live audience and getting that vibe from them, and I love people to join in the singing, and I love people to clap their hands.

It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.