Johnny Christ Quotes

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

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 play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.