Backstage Quotes

• A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Public
  • Joke
  • Repeated

• Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Training
  • Actor

• I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

  

  Zak Orth
  • Up
  • Me
  • Backstage

• What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • Show
  • Controls
  • Backstage

• I'm excited to be participating in the T-Mobile All Access program, ... I can't wait to hook up with some of my fans and hang out backstage. Performing in New York City is always special, and I am really excited to play at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Up
  • City
  • T-Mobile

• I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • I Love
  • Festival
  • Backstage

• Can someone please explain to me what that was all about? I was backstage and didn't hear one iota of humor during that entire presentation.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Humor
  • Explain
  • Presentation

• Sometimes after a gig one of the band would say 'Did you see that girl down the front?' and somebody would say 'Do you want me to get her back?' But, generally we met them at the hotel or backstage. For a girl to get backstage in the first place, she'd probably blown half the crew - and I'm not into sharing in that respect. We had one roadie who actually had a heart attack on tour with us in 1983 - he was a big, big guy and he was doing at least four or five groupies a day!

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Girl
  • Band
  • First Place

• He didn't look good while the paramedics were treating him backstage, so we chose to err on the side of caution and send him to the hospital.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Hospital
  • Backstage
  • Paramedics

• Backstage is greatly overrated

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • Backstage

• For a long time I wanted to hide backstage or under the stage.

  

  Camilo
  • Stage
  • Hide
  • Backstage

• Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Horrible
  • Woodstock
  • Helicopter

• Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Words
  • Forgotten
  • Backstage

• With Dio, my first time to Japan, middle of summer, and it was rainy, hot, humid. We went on at 2 AM after Foreigner and Sting and there were a couple of Japanese bands before us. Mama's Boys went on at the crack of dawn. They were serving breakfast backstage.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Breakfast
  • Bands
  • Japan

• I'm all cried out, you should have seen me backstage before.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Backstage

• I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Fan
  • Viewers
  • Backstage

• I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Band
  • Girls
  • Backstage

• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

  

  Stephen Furst
  • Actors
  • Street
  • Backstage

• We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • College
  • Students
  • Notes

• Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Backstage

• I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Thinking
  • Backstage
  • Implants