My life a stage I need her just to stand on it. Everyday…

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

— Mike Portnoy

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in…

— Cate Blanchett

To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined.

— Sylvie Guillem

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I…

— Idina Menzel

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

— Tom Holland

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have…

— Dave Chappelle

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play…

— Lamont Dozier

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

— Ikue Mori

Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is a bit…

— Nicholas Thorburn

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley

I'd been playing in bands for something like seven years at this point. And we were always trying to get ahead, trying to rehearse…

— Aerosmith

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

— Suzi Quatro

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

— Matisyahu

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a…

— Phoebe Robinson