“I love performing in stadiums. I love it. There’s nothing like it. When it’s a full house and everybody’s having a good time and vibing? It’s fun – it’s lit. I don’t gotta jump around as much, either. I used to wear myself out after every concert, crawling backstage almost.”— Juice WRLD, nme.com
“When you’re fifteen and you’re trying to figure out a way to perform, a magic act is perfect. Because you buy a trick and then it’s got patter written in the instructions. You know, 'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen...' You memorize that and you’ve got a show.”— Steve Martin, amazon.com
“When you go out in front of all those people you get an enormous rush of chemicals in your body — your own chemicals, not chemicals you’ve put in.”— Mick Jagger, billboard.com
“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said Whatever it is, go back and do it aga…”— Elvis Presley, graceland.com
“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business—live concerts.”— Elvis Presley, graceland.com
“I’ve never gotten over what they call stage fright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out the…”— Elvis Presley, graceland.com
“We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we’ll go upstairs and sing until daylight gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.”— Elvis Presley, graceland.com
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.”— Elvis Presley, graceland.com
“I can’t imagine not playing music, but I don’t feel any need to perform music and, I don’t feel any need to record music. I’m really quite happy just to play one note, and just to hit it at different volume levels. And just, y’know, see how long it will resonate for, before it stops.”— Mark Hollis, dervswerve.wordpress.com
“I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.”— Don Rickles, esquire.com
“To be honest, the show itself. The energy exchange, the whole vibe. There’s nothing more intoxicating, there is no sensation in life more addictive.”— David Draiman, sflonstage.com
“It’s like, I love making shit up and I love performing.…The mind is interesting to me. The mind is fun. I have fun hanging out with myself. I’m my own friend, and we have serious things, of course, but we also…I’ll think of things and laugh out loud by myself.”— Steven Wright, lasvegasmagazine.com
“It didn't take long for me to realize that writing, performing and singing songs was what I was meant to do, but what other people thought was an entirely different issue. If I had to break it down, I’d say about 99 percent of the people in my life were telling me I wasn’t going to make it. All that…”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“Rose: Oh, Blanche, how do you feel about performing in front of a video camera? Blanche: I think it's okay as long as you've already had at least three dates.”— Winifred Hervey, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com
“I really didn't mind trying anything and I think that's one reason that I used to do comedy in the beginning, I just did it because I didn't think I could sing as good as my sisters.”— June Carter Cash, npr.org