Onstage Quotes

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

I've never been onstage in my life.