Agony Quote by Clara Schumann

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

— John Lydon

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

— Brian Wilson

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I…

— Pablo Casals

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in…

— Hilary Hahn

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it…

— Amy Hoggart

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety…

— Carly Simon

Sometimes fear can bring performances out from you.

— Paul Scholes

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly…

— John Lydon

At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I…

— Arthur Rubinstein

It's my biggest fear that one day I'm going to trip on stage.

— Bhumi Pednekar

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into…

— Sarah Brightman

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I…

— Elie Wiesel