Performers Quotes - Page 32

• I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Focus, Together

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps responding really well. It changes itself every year; it ages, it goes through all these different environmental changes, and of course, the travelling...It develops on its own, just as any performer does. It's a very stable instrument, so I can rely on it, but at the same time it always shows me a different side of things than I expect.

  Hilary Hahn

  Years, Environmental, Age

  "Violinist.com interview with Hilary Hahn". Interview with Laurie Niles, www.violinist.com. October 22, 2007.

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• Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Athlete, Nba

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• Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.

  Planningtorock

  Thinking, Feelings, Female

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else...They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Player, Thinking

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• The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

  Gene Kelly

  America, Limits, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there

  Michael Richards

  Country, Vegas, New Orleans

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• I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Issues, Looks

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• If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Two, Dollars

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• Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

  Betty Buckley

  Art, Musical, Actors

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• Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspiration, Love Is, Joy

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1943). “Annual”

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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

  Justin Timberlake

  Success, Simple, Thinking

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• Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

  Ani DiFranco

  Stars, Rocks, Fans

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Artist, Soul, Mind

  "The Spirit of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". Interview with Andy Carvin, edwebproject.org. 1993.

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• If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

  Alice Cooper

  Play, Silence, Audience

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Thinking, Facts

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  Mac Davis

  Lying, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 09, 2015.

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• There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Littles, Performances

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

  Lady Gaga

  Beauty, Girl, Believe

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• When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good

  Alison Krauss

  Real, Acceptance, Musical

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• There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Strong, Female, Looks

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• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Musician, Jazz, Force

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

  Cher

  Age, Firsts, Realizing

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