Live Performance Quotes

• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Enjoy, Performing, Downloads

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

  Usher

  Purpose, Moments, Masters

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• My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd. Just going out there and doing my own stuff and being in front of my own people. I love it.

  Wiz Khalifa

  People, Feelings, Energy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Anything Goes, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Things I Love, Music Is, Performances

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• Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

  Jonathan Demme

  Beats, Performances

  "Jonathan Demme On Future Projects ‘Old Fires,’ ‘Zeitoun’ And ‘This House We Live In’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

  Lee Hall

  Play, Theatre, Trying

  "Songs for a Sunderland sex-farce". Interview with Charlotte Higgin, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

  John Fogerty

  Might, Missions, Energetic

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• Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

  Maria Bamford

  Fun, Creating Things, People

  "Comedian Maria Bamford on her family" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2011.

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• For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.

  Aaron Copland

  Forever, Important, Sound

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Song, Fans, Add

  Source: imfromcleveland.com

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• My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Energy, Actors

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

  Cate Blanchett

  Light, Doors, Things I Love

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Worry, Performances, Happens

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• Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

  Jonathan Demme

  Film, Moments, Music Is

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

  Darren Criss

  Play, Long, Musical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

  David Byrne

  Ephemeral, Cylinders, Music Is

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  Source: www.today.com

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• The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Film, Theater, Adrenaline

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• Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

  Dan Deacon

  Fun, Nice, Goal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

  Arthur Fogel

  Vortex, Records, Kind

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• It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

  Steve Martin

  Endurance, Half, Tests

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

  John Mayall

  Reality, Albums, Checks

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