Onstage Quotes
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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 -
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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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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 -
When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surreal, man. One of those situations I'll never forget. I'll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.
Hit-Boy -
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
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 -
If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
Little Richard
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I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.
Juice Newton -
When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.
Scott Ellis -
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