Dennis DeYoung Quotes

I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's why I wrote this song. That's a good job.' And it is a job.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

I love working in front of American crowds.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

I learned all I have to do is sing the best music I know how and put on the best show I know how and just relax with it and people enjoy it.

I always used to get goosebumps in Madison Square Garden, because as soon as I started making my entrance, people would be chanting my name. 'BRU-NO! BRU-NO!'

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

While it feels good to be compared to someone like Sridevi, it's also a lot of pressure.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I always wanted to participate in something where I can show my talent, my capabilities, and also reach a mass audience. Everybody watches 'Bigg Boss.'

I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

I don't tend to go into any job thinking about the audience reaction.

Performing the American Music Awards and having Harrison Ford introduce you behind the John Williams orchestra for Star Wars, and then Meghan Trainor is in the front just standing up and like, 'I love you guys!' That was a huge moment.

It's hard to solo when you're walking around, especially when you're in Michael Jackson's presence. There are easier things in life to do.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

I love show business. It's my life, honey, and I try to enjoy it.

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.