As an artist you need to fully embrace the fact that you are the one on stage everyone is looking at.
And when they are looking at you they’re saying…
Entertain me!
Make me feel less lonely!
Tell me what to do (without telling me what to do)!
Take the pressure of wanting to have a good night off of me!
Dance, monkey!
I’m giving you the steering wheel.
You are in charge and we want you to be in charge and we need you to be the best at being in charge.
That’s a pretty heavy load to bear when you walk on stage. But you must take it on…you must take it ALL on if you want to be great.
You have to know that these are the expectations and develop such a deep understanding of them that you are fulfilling them on stage regardless of actually thinking about them.
We know when someone doesn’t have it and we know when someone kind of has it…and then the irony is we forget about it all together when someone has it.
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