Music Performance Anxiety Quotes

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

But the first time I had to stand up and sing with them was when we did the pre-record for the movie and it was that moment where I sort of said to myself: "S**t, now I actually have to do this and I have to stand up and do my stars in your eyes moment!" Wake Up and Make Love With Me was the first song and I thought: "Here we are with Chaz and all the boys..."

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!