I've been onstage once for one performance with four days'…

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly…

— Michael Richards

The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no…

— Max von Essen

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good,…

— John Cleese

I was three years old, and I walked onstage during a performance that my father was a tenor in 'The Barber of Seville.' I…

— Rick Nielsen

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre…

— Edwin Moses

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

— Phife Dawg

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have…

— Julianne Nicholson

I've never been onstage in my life.

— Anna Friel

My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert…

— Lalo Schifrin

I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome…

— Andy Grammer

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit…

— Phoebe Snow

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

— Bruce Springsteen

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

— Elton John

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play…

— John Mayer

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

— Alice Cooper