Band Quote by Simon Taylor-Davis

Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes it happens…

— Lee Ranaldo

It's fun when you've opened for someone at a venue, and then years go by, and now you're headlining.

— Tom Segura

Generally speaking people that come to an amphitheater show, they're not coming to see the opening band.

— Tim Commerford

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

— Jack Antonoff

When you open for a band, you don't play one of their songs. You just don't do that.

— Shavo Odadjian

Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot…

— Tristan Prettyman

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me…

— Kelly Jones

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were…

— M. Shadows

It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't…

— Dua Lipa

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

— Bill Bruford

I think the most important thing about holding a concert is to enjoy the moment, rather than showing off.

— Yunho

I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

— Ethel Waters