Tinashe Quotes

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.