Application Quote by Todd Rundgren

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my…

— Dan Deacon

We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we…

— Taboo

The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound.…

— Matt Tong

It's so easy to make albums with overdubbing and editing these days, but I really prefer playing live and just getting the music to…

— Paul Gilbert

Singing and playing live can be difficult. Like, in the studio, I would record either the music track first or the vocal first. I…

— Thundercat

When you're making a record you're trying to play for the song. You want people to play it on the radio. They're not going…

— Susan Tedeschi

In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the…

— Zooey Deschanel

My setup for a live performance lately has been just guitar and synthesizer. Sometimes I only bring one. The guitar is in pretty bad…

— Kevin Drumm

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

— Gin Wigmore

There is a definite difference between live shows and the recordings. The recordings are for all time, hopefully, so you do want to bring…

— Will Sheff

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective…

— Todd Rundgren

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

— Mark Morris