“I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!” PlayerFrontsBandSlidesTromboneMarching Band Author:Quincy Jones
“I guess I prefer to play live, but I don't want to have only live CDs. I like playing live because there are alot of things that can happen. I can interact with the audience and say some things to get me in trouble. On the other hand, the studio is nice because you can really take your time and make something that you know is the best thing that you can ever do. But nothing beats being up on stage in front of all that energy.” KnowsWantI CanPlayHandsHappensEnergyAudienceNiceTroubleStageFrontsBeatsStudiosBest ThingsCdsTake Your Time Author:Katy Perry
“I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.” LittlesHoursSleepFrontsEatingPicksStandingEightCarrotsPantry Author:Lisa Loeb
“Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.” KindPersonsRealCountrySoundAbilityTalkingRocksFrontsBandConceptsPunkSheerVocalPunk Rock Author:Ryan Adams
“I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.” RealSituationToo MuchFrontsReal LifeSwearGrans Author:Melanie Chisholm
“I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!” WayFeelsSometimesFrontsCryEmotionalHomesick Author:Nick Carter
“Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.” PeopleThinkingWayFrontsCustomersOne WayNaive Author:Lee Konitz
“I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?” KnowsWantMeanPlayWantedGuyAudienceFrontsMusicianFolksSingersVansTonks Author:Ray Wylie Hubbard
“When I was about 15. I was just singing around, and people kept telling me I needed to try it. A friend got me to sing in front of Troy Taylor, and he took to me right there.” PeopleTryingFrontsNeededSinging Author:Trey Songz
“Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the front of the stage even when I was playing drums. I don't have anything against John Boy, I just wanted to be on the front of the stage.” WellsWantedFunStuffBoysStageFrontsPlaying Drums Author:Eddie Montgomery
“I've never had the Lord say, 'Jesse, I think that car is a little bit too nice.' I've had vehicles and the Lord said, 'Would you please go park that at your house. Don't put that in front of my house. I don't want people to think that I'm a poor God.'” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesSaidHouseBitsPoorLordNiceCarFrontsPleaseLittle BitParksVehicleToo Nice Author:Jesse Duplantis
“I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above the fray. A God who has that British stiff upper lip even when disaster is looming. When I read my Bible, though, I keep running into a different God, and I'm not pleased. This God says he "hates" sin. Well, he usually yells it. Read the prophets. It's just one harangue after another, all in loud decibels. And when the shouting is over, then comes the pouting. ... When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car.” WellsDifferentSelfRunningHateSinStepsFailingCarFrontsLipsBritishDisasterHandleLoudProphetJust OneControlledShoutingTranquilProvocationKeep RunningFrayLoomingWhen All Else FailsPoutingStiff Upper LipDifferent Gods Author:Mark Galli
“The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.” ThinkingWayLightRunningTurnsAttentionHellFailingCrazyCarFrontsDramaWindowAskingFellowsDrivingQueensReasonablePoundsAnxiousUp And DownShoutingBumperKeep RunningWhen All Else Fails Author:Mark Galli
“Hatebreed is a fantastic band. They've been around for ten years and they're going really strong. But Hatebreed -- when you compare them to Agnostic Front, we're two completely different bands. There are a few similarities, but Hatebreed is a lot heavier.” YearsTwoDifferentStrongFrontsBandTenFantasticCompareAgnosticSimilarity Author:Roger Miret
“They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out into the foyer and spend an hour or so signing autographs for the fans and having our pictures taken with them.We strongly believe that going out front to meet the fans is just as important as playing the gigs - and we all love a good natter!” BelieveImportantHoursAudienceTakenFansFrontsPerformancesOccasionsBarriersGoing OutGigsAutographsSigningSociablePicture TakenSigning AutographsFoyers Author:Ric Sanders
“We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.” PeopleAbleNightSongStageFrontsSingingGratefulFortunateEvery Night Author:Al Barr
“I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMeanPlayEnjoyAudienceStageFrontsPerformingGratificationPlaying MusicPerforming Live Author:Chris Hesse
“I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing.” PeopleWayTryingPlayFrontsBandStandingInstrumentsRhythmMelodyPointingExpressiveConductingImprovising Author:Joe Lovano
“I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?” KnowsMenWorldGivingMeanChildrenRealityKidsCoursesParentWatchesFocusFrontsTelevisionBagsDepressingCartoonPillsOf ContextFreaking OutYuppiesReally Depressing Author:Emily Haines
“Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast, with experiences and stuff. Going to that school there were a lot of rich girls, a lot of partying, a lot of wild things. You're put in this environment where you're forced to wear a uniform. It was all girls, so you rebel naturally, I think. I don't know, I just kind of got inspiration from every day living and going to school.” ThinkingKnowsWellsKindInspirationSchoolGirlGrowsStuffPartyGrowing UpRichEnvironmentGrowingFrontsRebelUniformsThrustWild ThingsRich Girl Author:Sarah Hudson
“I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.” PastWifeFrontsMy WifeBackwardsDaydreaming Author:Tom Courtenay
“When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsSaidEndsProblemFilmCertainCan DoTalkingMillionsFrontsAmountCostMoonProveStartingBudgetsFeaturesConvinceMore MoneyLots Of MoneyConvincingSaying NoFinancing Author:Duncan Jones
“If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!” IfsImportantBodyEnjoySleepFrontsYour BodySchedules Author:Miles Teller
“I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.” KnowsWantKindWantedFrontsJokesScaredNakedMagazines Author:Dolly Parton
“I have the best of both worlds. I can talk about Taylor Swift during the day, and at night I can sit in front of the TV and watch Thursday night football. At some point, if the two converge and it becomes one job where I can still talk about both, that would be amazing.” IfsWorldStillsI CanTwoWould BeJobsNightWatchesFrontsFootballTvsThursdayBest Of Both WorldsThursday Night Author:Charissa Thompson
“I've seen definitive change in the mountains. I have concerns for the future generation. We inherit the earth from the people in front of us, and then we pass it on to the next generation. I don't think we've done a great job with our responsibility to leave the earth a better place than what we were born into.” PeopleThinkingDoneEarthJobsNextBornResponsibilityGenerationsFrontsMountainConcernBetter PlaceNext GenerationFuture GenerationGreat Job Author:Jeremy Jones
“My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.” IfsMotherDiesTalentFrontsTelevisionQuittingFatsAlways BelieveGift From GodI QuitJust Live Author:Johnny Cash
“The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.” LinesSecurityFrontsIraqBordersSyriaNational SecurityAirportsIsisRioBorder Security Author:Ted Cruz
“I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!” FrontsComputerSittingScreensUmbrellaSunscreenComputer ScreenWear Sunscreen Author:Fan Bingbing
“Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica - that's slightly more than the total figure for New York - and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?” WorldTryingHas BeensPlansFrontsFiguresNew YorkResponsibleTrialsLengthImmenseBin LadenMassacresConvictsTribunals Author:Robert Fisk
“Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.” KnowsShouldLooksMayJobsActorsEasyChallengesRoomsHellStageFrontsCamerasTablesCraftsFakeDiningChallenge YourselfDining RoomsPretender Author:Dustin Diamond
“The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.” AudienceFrontsBest ThingsThings To Do Author:Bill Hader
“Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.” HelpingRolesWifeFrontsEmotionalPartnersStressfulHelping Each Other Author:Peter Menzel
“Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.” PeopleSexFrontsRight NowPatronOregonSaloons Author:Bill O'Reilly
“You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.” MindHeartFrontsPaintingConnections Author:Rosanne Cash
“Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.” ThinkingWayHumansBigsSeemsBitsSituationAudienceFailingFrontsComfortableStranger Author:Miranda July
“The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.” WayTryingRealStatesCoursesSidesAudienceFrontsBalanceOne DayBoth SidesAlteredAltered States Author:Miranda July
“Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.” IfsYearsFeelingsThreeFrontsTenThree Years Author:Audrey Tautou
“I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.” YearsFirstsStillsHomeBigsSchoolRememberHouseWaitingHalfFrontsMonthsRedMy FavoriteSeatsGradesHospitalsYellowBikeBicycleBananas Author:Brian Littrell
“I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.” MenGroupsFrontsChoir Author:John Legend
“I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.” PeopleSometimesPlayCharacterFeelingsStuffBitsKnowingFrontsBraveSecureBe BraveAmbiguousStuff I Like Author:Andrew Scott
“There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, 'Will you all just shut up!' And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, 'What are you doing?!' I was like, 'You better get up here! I don't play the fighting games.'” PlayGuyGirlFightingThreeGamesBehindsTalkingFrontsLike YouTheaterMadMovedGet UpShut UpIncidentsMy GirlMovie Theater Author:Kevin Hart
“I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.” PeopleIfsWritingMeanSongTroubleFrontsFitMirrorsPantsLeatherLeather Pants Author:John Rzeznik
“If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenNightFrontsTelevisionPigsAccessories Author:Tori Amos
“Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.” PeopleShowsYoungParentCompanyTeacherFrontsAuthorityLuxuryMannersContemptOld PeopleDisrespectBad Manners Author:Socrates
“The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.” ImportantWarSelfFrontsCivilizationTraditionDemocraticIslamWesternLoathingMulticulturalSelf LoathingIntersections Author:Mark Steyn
“The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.” PeopleWorldI CanFeelingsAudienceFrontsSpeechPerformingDictatorThrill Author:Steve Coogan
“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfJobsUsedActorsCan DoKnowingFrontsSpeechConsciousAskingCamerasNervesFuneralSelf ConsciousEulogy Author:Eddie Marsan
“There are times when I've had ideas walking down the street that I thought were great, and the minute I got onstage, I would think of them and go, 'Wow, that would never work,' even before I did it in front of the audience.” ThinkingIdeasAudienceStreetsMinutesFrontsWalkingWow Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.” PeopleTryingHardCoursesOpinionMillionsMissingFrontsTelevisionUltimateAccomplishPerforming Author:Jimmy Connors