Kelela Quotes

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

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.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

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.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn't be called live shows. People like AR Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Arijit Singh are the ones who hold true concerts.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

So many bands play to tracks - what's the point in coming to see them live if they're playing to a CD?

Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.

I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real live show. So I think that when you put a great bill together, that people will come out for it.

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

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

I think live stuff is certainly stuff I enjoy doing. I do like performing for people and bringing it to people.

I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.

The fans at our shows in Tokyo love music so much; they're amazing. They give a kind of energy and adrenaline that builds us up when we play.

For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that's my take on it, but it just depends what you're going for.

I started a group called Loudpvck, which I do by myself now, and toured the whole world.

The most amazing live shows that I've ever seen were Rain Parade shows.

There's a different energy at one of my shows than anybody else's.