Performers Quotes - Page 31

• New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Balance, Movement

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• We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

  Neil Tennant

  Variety Of Music, Choices, Sexuality

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

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• As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer.

  Chick Corea

  Character, Guy, Musician

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• I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me.

  Sara Bareilles

  Running, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

  Patti Smith

  Vision, Singers, Photographer

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.

  Ernest Gold

  Night, Views, Practice

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• Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

  Buck Rodgers

  Courage, Long, Agility

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• If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.

  Ben Lee

  Beautiful, Atmosphere, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

  Ben Lee

  Ideas, Musician, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

  Scott Thompson

  Country, Careers, Order

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• As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Impact, Important, Teens

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

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• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  Lady Gaga

  Years, Five Year Olds, Five Years

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• Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs.

  Alec Baldwin

  Song, Rocks, Forever

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• Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

  Tony Jeary

  Moving, Top Performers, Action

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• It would be awesome to know how to sing and be some sort of performer; to feed off other's people's energy is intense. The feeling they must feel would be cool. Too bad I can't sing.

  Nick Viall

  People, Feelings, Energy

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• I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.

  J. B. Smoove

  Broken, Comedian, Creation

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• The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

  Iggy Pop

  Rip, Ideas, People

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Bread, Comedy, Crumbs

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• He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musician, Jazz, Composer

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• There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

  Cholly Atkins

  Artist, Training, Singers

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• That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing nothing! The highest performers-the winners-respond by studying successful people and duplicating success.

  Grant Cardone

  Successful, Order, People

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.132, John Wiley & Sons

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• I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

  Nick Offerman

  Medicine, People, Giving

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

  Marilyn Manson

  Real, Past, People

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• A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.

  Nina Gordon

  Writing, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

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• I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.

  Liberace

  Pain, Thinking, Media

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