Air Quote by Jarvis Cocker

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other,…

— Al Pacino

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off…

— Tod Machover

In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel…

— Elizabeth Berkley

Singing is connected to the body. So there's a - there's a depth in the body that's necessary to perform this kind of music.…

— Dolora Zajick

To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There…

— Clemence Poesy

With a live audience, if you sing with the right feeling, the response you get is a high, an excitement. There's nothing in the…

— Asha Bhosle

If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere…

— Ben Lee

I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft -…

— Elaine Stritch

Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.

— Kandyse McClure

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

— Matt Nathanson

When people hear you singing songs which are done as playback, they don't see you. But when you perform live, they expect you to…

— Neha Kakkar

The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the…

— Lenny Jacobson