I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
My best work happened on the stage.
I never want to give up the stage.
I love to perform live.
I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.
In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.
I would be onstage all the time if I could.
We're all performing for someone.
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.
I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.
I just love playing live.
I just love putting on a show for my fans.
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.
I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.
I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.
I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.
I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again.
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
I love playing live.
When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
