Clarence Clemons Quotes

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

I'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

When it's silent or when that energy of the audience isn't there, you feel the bumps a little more. You feel yourself losing breath a little quicker.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

I get kinda nervous before every show.

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

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.