Josh Dun Quotes

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

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

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

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

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals, not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.

It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

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

I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

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

I wouldn't do go to another band.

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

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

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

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.