The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.
Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.
I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.
Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
Music and physical activity goes hand in hand. Music and basketball, man.
50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.
When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.
Sometimes, with more progressive songs, you lose that feel somewhere along the line, but 'This Means War' never quits - the energy is always there.
I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.
The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.
Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.
For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.
Even though Peter Criss is a pretty simple player, he played with great feel and made the music get up and go.
When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.
Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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.
It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.
Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and rock get it across best for me.
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.
