Performing music Quotes

Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have to do is go on stage in wonderful places and play music.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

When I was seven, I saw 'Sister Act 2,' and I fell in love with the performing aspect of music.

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

I've forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day... But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.

I've always enjoyed playing. If all it meant were to just stand there and play my axe and sing, I could have gone on forever.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.

With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.

I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go, 'That's pretty cool'-if you're playing at the local bar somewhere, or the coffee shop, singing songs, or if you have a gig somewhere and you're singing your own songs, I think that's some version of making it. ... It's not just about having commercial success; it's about having a great life.

I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

All I wanted to do was to perform my music, so I never really thought about photo shoots or music video shoots or interviews. You can't anticipate those things - you just can't plan this as a job.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. I came out like, "How is this going to be more than a hobby I'm always paying off debt for?" I could've sat at a desk and written pieces for orchestras that never would have been played, or I could've written music for me as a performer. I play electronics, and the places I was gonna be playing were bass clubs and house parties.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work.