Artist Performance Quotes

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film's quality is elevated.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

I was late to the game on D.R.A.M.; I knew of 'Cha Cha,' but then I saw his Tiny Desk Concert, and I was hooked. I love how happy he is.

When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.'

Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the "old stuff." And if an artist comes in town and dumps his entire new album on me, as a listener in a concert venue, it happens to miss out on the old stuff that I came there for. That doesn't work too well for me as a listener. Most of the time for concerts, it's the old stuff.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

When I see someone great live, what I think is, 'I can't wait to hear the record.'

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

We did 'Bricks' and 'Ridiculous' all in one day. Gucci came here, like, 8 in the morning - we were done 4 the morning the next day.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could have ever imagined.