Onstage Quotes · Page 5

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

— Lana Del Rey

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in…

— Al Madrigal

It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

— Pauly Shore

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

— Nikki Sixx

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

— Bradford Cox

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

— Bernie Mac

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and…

— Harland Williams

For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the…

— Alissa White-Gluz

There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm…

— Marina and the Diamonds

L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking…

— Dave Gahan

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much…

— Robert Gottlieb

Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a…

— Leah LaBelle

I don't just do flips onstage. Of course, not randomly in public either - more on my own with my friends doing…

— Benson Boone

I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate…

— Reggie Watts

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's…

— Keith Flint

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word…

— Tracy Letts

I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my…

— Jackie Earle Haley

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed…

— Lucy Alibar

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you.…

— Kim Gordon

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis…

— Philippe Petit

I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this…

— Boy George

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured…

— John Lurie

I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms…

— Fergie

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

— Wanda Sykes

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

— John Tesh

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

— Alex Pettyfer

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

— Bruce Dickinson

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.

— Tech N9ne

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

— Dusty Hill

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

— Miyavi

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

— Eddie Rabbitt

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

— Andrew Bird

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Bruce Springsteen

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

— Bryce Dessner

I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

— J. B. Smoove

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

— Elton John

I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you?'

— Kanye West

Lena Horne - when she walked onstage, she really was Erzulie.

— Cecil Taylor