Performers Quotes - Page 3

• My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.

  Le1f

  Fashion, School, Bridges

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you with how best to express your ideas so that it is as clear as possible to the performer.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Ideas, Imperfect, Enough

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.

  John Michael Higgins

  Thinking, Space, Long

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.

  Helene Grimaud

  Interesting, Priorities, Different

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

  Beverly Sills

  Artist, Careers, Triumph

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• My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

  Helene Grimaud

  Stronger, Rehearsal, Belief

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.

  Bill Walsh

  Athlete, Winning, Order

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.256, Penguin

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• Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

  Mick Jagger

  Steps, Stage, Persons

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Trying, Tvs

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• I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

  Mathew Baynton

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

  Mathew Baynton

  Eye, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Musician, Rock N Roll

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

  Edith Piaf

  Fly Away, Dove, Should

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• Coming here, I sharpened and fine-tuned everything I had and needed. What I thought of as myself as a performer, I looked back and was like, ‘Wow, I improved from where I was.’ I thought I was ready and then saw the improvements I made which were unbelievable. It makes the transition from down here to up there (the WWE roster) so much easier because you’re prepared for what they need you to do. It’s not like you’re jumping into a whole other world. You’re prepared for what they need.

  Bo Dallas

  Other Worlds, Wwe, Jumping

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• I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Needs, Made

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• When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

  Cate Blanchett

  Different, Want, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

  Charles Garfield

  Elements, Belief, Standing Out

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• If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

  Ned Rorem

  Creative, Might, Playing Music

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• I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

  Pauly Shore

  Thinking, Kind, Feels

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• Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

  Doug Benson

  Reading, Want, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!

  Lea Michele

  Artist, Voice, Piano

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• I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.

  Demetri Martin

  Song, Play, Roles

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

  Sasha Grey

  Men, Creative, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

  Johnny Carson

  Believe, Egocentric, Find Me

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

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• You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.

  Johnny Carson

  Successful, Doe, Way

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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