Onstage Quotes

• I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Today
  • Drinking
  • Beer

• Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage...

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Audience
  • Onstage
  • Participation

• Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Second
  • Onstage
  • Guitarist

• to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Live
  • True
  • Dream

• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mother

• You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Together
  • Movie

• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Up
  • Anonymous
  • Liked

• Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Shining
  • Fears

• I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Results
  • Function
  • Onstage

• That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Night
  • Energy

• On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Good
  • Night
  • Underwear

• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• When I take my Les Paul onstage, it's reliable. An SG could be different from night to night, but a Les Paul is so solid and reliable that you can trust it every night

  

  Peter Svensson The Cardigans
  • Night
  • Trust
  • Les Paul

• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Play
  • Investment

• I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Onstage

• The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Onstage
  • Slaughter
  • Intend

• I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Audience
  • Short

• I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Guys
  • Music Is
  • Wellington

• I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Attention
  • Strange

• I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Have
  • Onstage

• People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Night
  • Food

• There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Writing
  • Kill
  • Joke

• Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Onstage

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