Show Quotes

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

I've been in pain, hope it doesn't show. I've been insane, well the time is slow.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

It's not hard to do a show; it's hard to cancel a show.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

Musically I was fed up with the virtuoso thing. Our gigs had become nothing more than an excuse for us to show off as individuals, and any sense of unity we might have had when we started seemed to have gone out the window.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.