Musical Performance Anxiety Quotes

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

There's nothing better about being a musician than live performing.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.

My biggest 'Spinal Tap' moment was a stupid one as well. When we were rehearsing for the Zeppelin O2 gig, I was having an argument with my drum pedals. I actually took them outside, and drove over them several times with the car. Shouting at them and telling them they'll never work again.

I don't even like doing drum solos live; to me, it's like, 'Ehhh.' It doesn't really interest me.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I watch YouTube videos of our live shows, wondering if it actually sounded the way it sounded when I was playing it, and the consistent thing I see is that you can feel the anxiety and the tension and it's over-aggressive a lot of the time.

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

It's funny how concert dreams are such a recurring thing among musicians. It's like how everyone has that dream of their teeth falling out? Except musicians have this dream of just standing onstage and there being all these people out there, and for some reason, the song isn't starting.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.