Devon Bostick Quotes

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' tour was incredible.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.