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Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

— Dylan Moran

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

— Van Morrison

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

— Meat Loaf

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

— Ronnie Milsap

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

— Neil Peart

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

— Jay Ryan

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

— Jeff Lynne

Basically, I live to do gigs.

— Amy Winehouse

When I'm on stage, I feel very much at home - within a theater, within an ensemble - so this entire process is something I feel very attuned with.

— Emilia Clarke

Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.

— Hayley Williams

✗Opposing Perspectives

The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.

— Wink Martindale