Robert Shaw Quotes

That's the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it's for the moment. It's like, 'Can I do it tonight?' And you can see when people like you. But on record - and with the pen - it's almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

It doesn't matter if you load it on a DVD, if you videotape it, it doesn't matter. There's nothing more exciting than being at a live show.

When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering from a cold or is mourning a death or falling in love. We don't know. But so all of that chance is the performance.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.