Onstage Quotes
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Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
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And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam
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In this day and age of social media, there's a lot of people out there with five-pound opinions, We kind of figured that it would be best if we just walked up onstage and showed them who the lineup was.
Juan Croucier Ratt
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I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.
Jack White The White Stripes
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When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
Ed Simons The Chemical Brothers
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I always take a hot shower before I go onstage. It's so refreshing. I let the steam into my throat. That's the way I warm up my vocal cords - in the shower. I start by humming and then finally singing.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees
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All the videos we have done have been our ideas, our concepts. We're a very conscious band of the way we present ourselves onstage and the artwork for the record and everything like that. So every time we do videos, it's the same thing. We sit down with the director and have him make our vision come true.
Dennis Lyxzén AC4
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I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.
Lorde
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Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
Mariah Carey
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting of a scene, the widespread creative marksmanship happening all around you for every second of footage. Onstage you can suddenly feel solitary, like it's all on your shoulders, while on camera you feel like there are so many people working with you on every shot. Those are each unique and gratifying challenges.
Bryce Pinkham
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When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
Little Richard
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You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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I'm actually relaxed onstage. Totally relaxed. It's nice. I feel relaxed in the studio too. I know whether something feels right. If it doesn't, I know how to fix it. Everything has to be in place and if it is you feel good, you feel fulfilled.
Michael Jackson
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I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.
Butterfly Boucher