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In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.
For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.
The encore should wrap up the audience's experience of the piece you just played.
'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.
For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
When I check in at the Encore, they're like, 'Welcome back, sir.' I'm back home, it's like my second home.
Whenever we go to different places fans in each country prepare something before we go on stage for our encore.
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
I can't stand it when groups come back for an encore, and they play some slow thing. Oh, brother! It's like, 'Had I known that, I would've left.'
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
It's so much fun to have vocal groups out on the road because we get to see them do their thing, and at the end of the night, we come back, and we all do a big thing together for the encore with 'American Band.'
It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
What I love about Encores! is that it's a tremendous amount of work in a short amount of time, but it's just so festive and so celebratory and fun. It harkens back to the old days of just getting together and putting on a show.
A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.
The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
