19 Quotes by Joel Plaskett

There’s a reason that I love this town.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don’t have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it’s spending time with family and friends.

I love singing. I’ve never felt I’ve had a great voice but I feel I’ve gotten better. It’s funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I’ve relaxed about my singing so I’m hearing it the way I like it.

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how.

I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

I hope people leave my show thinking they’ve had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they’ve wasted their time or didn’t get their money’s worth.

Great art is a regional thing. I’m not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I’ve been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn’t get any easier when you get away all the time and so I’m trying to find the balance.

What you’re hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a “common” feeling. Even though you’re the performer and they’re the audience there’s something uniting everybody in the room.