Performers Quotes - Page 16

• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Input, Faces, Blind

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

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• They who are to be judges must also be performers.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Judging, Social Justice

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.274, Aristotle

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• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Practice, Differences, Long

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• Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Drinking, Decision

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Children, Skills

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• Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

  Tom Glazer

  Lonely, Sound, Negative

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• I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.

  Debbie Gibson

  Daughter, Mother, Crazy

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• I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.

  John Eliot

  Jobs, Real, Butterfly

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• Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.

  Art Kane

  People, Want, Waste

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• Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

  Marc Maron

  Mind Your Own Business, Ego, Soul

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• You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

  Evel Knievel

  Air, Guy, Thrill

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• Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Blown away by the album, I called Nathan Hubbard, the drummer and composer for the group, and with whom I've played on a couple of Trummerflora-related occasions, and asked him to round up several of his Return To One cohorts for tonight's show. I can't recommend their album highly enough; please pick up a copy.

  Mike Keneally

  Dream, Couple, Albums

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• Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

  Ricky Jay

  Art, Powerful, Support

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• I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

  Jerry Juhl

  Writing, Play, Genius

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!

  Keith Barry

  Fearless, Pieces, Twins

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• I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

  Tim Finn

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

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• For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

  Hollie Cavanagh

  Voice, Singing, Important

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• Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.

  Leonard Rose

  Play, People, Important

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• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  Hal David

  Song, Rap, Writing

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

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• I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

  Emanuel Ax

  Trying, Movement, Applause

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• The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

  James Galway

  Mind, Strange, Strange Things

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• There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

  Penn Jillette

  Jobs, Skills, Careers

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

  Jack Welch

  Management, Holding On, Failing

  “WrittenJack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace“ by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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• My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

  Lenny Breau

  Music, Country, Records

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• Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

  Jay Sankey

  Air, Self, Messages

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