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When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
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The stage is my first love.
On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.
On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
You have to open up on stage.
The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I'm on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.
There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
I'm most comfortable on stage.
There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.
I always
enjoyed the feeling of being
onstage - the magic that comes.
When I hit the stage it's like all
of a sudden a magic from
somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just
lose control of yourself.
Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.
I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.
The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.
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.
You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!
Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.
The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
A unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm.
I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.
To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.
I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.
As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
I've been on stage since I was eight.
My stage show is raw and unpredictable.
Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person.
The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.
Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.
I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.
With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.
I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly.
When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.
When I perform, I simply follow the music, and my heart; everything comes from me in a very natural way - it's not a show; and I believe in this way, it also touches the hearts of those in the audience.
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it
go.
Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.
Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.
Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.
The entertainment is in the presentation.
When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.
I really love live performing!
As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.
The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.
You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else ...
... is vaudeville.
I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.
Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don't belong to my fans. I don't put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.
I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got to act a comedy now, dead serious.
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
There's something very refreshing about being on stage.
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.
I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.
Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.
I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
Usually I perform with dancers.
If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.