Performances Quotes - Page 8

• As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Reason, Integrating, Driven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Ideas, Sociology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

  Denis Hayes

  Light, Energy, Goes On

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Art, Communication, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

  Jake T. Austin

  Struggle, Order, People

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

  Matt Nathanson

  Healing, Play, Heat

  "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

  India.Arie

  People, Soul, Style

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

  David Bowie

  Pieces, Realization, Facts

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Integrity, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.

  Keauna McLaughlin

  Thinking, Feel Good, States

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

  Kate Christensen

  Voice, Waiting, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.

  Randall Mann

  Sadness, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.

  Randall Mann

  Art, Sick, Everyday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.

  T.C. Boyle

  Reading, Blow, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.

  T.C. Boyle

  Night, Ideas, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Speaking for myself, but [Kriota] probably [agrees], I don't do different things because I have to, but certainly my career's taken a lot of twists and turns because things work out for a while and then something shifts and they don't. I went into illustration as a way of supporting my comics career. Then I got really interested in performance and I knew that was always going to be more of a hobby, but that's something I've kept doing.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Taken, Illustration, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Balance

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• Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

  Matt Squire

  Song, Responsibility, Numbers

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• There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

  Michael Caine

  Giving, Black, Actors

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• I'm totally a narcissist, so I was doing all this performance and having lots of weird ego time, and learning to set aside my love for the ego and find a deeper love for myself and through that seeing myself as one with all beings. And through loving myself, loving all people in the world, that was my cure for narcissism, the only cure.

  Larkin Grimm

  People, Ego, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as comedy pieces in the vein of performance monologue, such as you might get with Richard Pryor, or Lenny Bruce, or George Carlin. So I don't feel vulnerable because I know the line of demarcation between "Writer Kevin" and "Narrative Kevin."

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Views, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and the world of the film I know that it's at least in my opinion, that was great. Otherwise I'm thinking: "Oh I know they were just doing A, B and C, right before they walked into the scene, then the camera was there, then they probably took the shot from this reverse close-up and moved it into this." When all of that drops away then I'm like: "Okay this was phenomenal, this was fantastic." I mean, any film or TV performance in general is probably good.

  Gabriel Mann

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

  Gabriel Mann

  Character, Order, Together

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• I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

  Bela Fleck

  Hip Hop, Together, Jam

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in, conversations, sleep, mood, everything. However, there are many nights when the stars align and I feel like both the story teller and the stranger in the crowd, hearing it all for the very first time.

  Dia Frampton

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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