Onstage Quotes
I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't.
Judy Greer
When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
Little Richard
'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
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
Neil Peart
Rush
When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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
It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
Michael Carbonaro
They are sweating as much as anyone onstage. Their focus has to be that of somebody working on the balance beam. We're all three in sync. We have to feel what the other is doing. One lifts me up, the other, side to side. They're like puppeteers almost.
Cathy Rigby
I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.
Alec Baldwin
The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.
Nikki Glaser
We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business.
Jean-Philip Grobler
Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Etta James
I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
