Schoolboy Q Quotes

There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be and have fun on stage.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.

I don't prepare for a live show.

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!

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

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.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

I really love live performing!

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.