Julian Bream Quotes

I think actually performing on stage when everyone's facing you and you're one person facing them, that is quite a lonely thing in a strange way. You have to be quite insular from everybody else, you've got thousands of people staring at you and you're just on your own.

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

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

I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

I miss physically going out on stage and performing. That's the ultimate high.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

I would go to sleep and dream about being onstage with thousands and thousands of people.

I like to keep my normal life under wraps but in front of 80,000 people, I'm going to perform.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

There is nothing like going on a stage. You are in the saddle, and you've got to ride that horse, and there's nothing more thrilling and exhilarating.

On stage, I am in the dark.

I love having the opportunity to perform, and I hate not being given the opportunity to perform.