If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
If you're famous and supposedly wise, it's always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.
I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
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.
Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.
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