Live Performance – Page 2

The thing I love

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what’s happening onstage. Cate Blanchett

I couldn’t worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can’t. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don’t, you don’t, and then something else happens. That’s the point of the live performance. Bruce Springsteen

I actually acted onstage

I actually acted onstage before I’d ever seen a live performance, and I loved it. Bob Gunton

For some artists the

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance. Black Francis

The old forms of

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career. Bette Midler

I don’t particularly love

I don’t particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can’t make money off of that. Ben Rosenfield

Before the whole [music]

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It’s such a seismic shift really. Arthur Fogel

Black music has become

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. Archie Shepp

There’s nothing like watching

There’s nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows. Amy Poehler

It’s got to be

It’s got to be hard to be a band that’s trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there’s a certain thing that’s expected of you. But that’s why I admire Bob Dylan’s live performances – he’s steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that … Read more