Performing Arts Quotes - Page 3

• I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

  Katy B

  Art, School, People

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• I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

  Ellen Barkin

  Teacher, Art, School

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

  Claudia Lee

  Art, Writing, Acting

  "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.

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• When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

  Moby

  Art, Philosophy, School

  "Trouble still comes easy for Moby". Interview With Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

  George Brandis

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Law, Medicine

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• My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

  Paul McCartney

  Art, School, Use

  Interview with Robert Siegel, www.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

  Sam Hinton

  Song, Pride, Artist

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Book by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore 14:3, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

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• I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love the [Paul] Creston.

  Jon Gordon

  Senior, Art, School

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• Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

  Kate Baldwin

  Art, Real, Men

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• I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

  Betty Who

  Mom, Art, School

  "Betty Who Discusses Musical Influences And Her Song ‘Somebody Loves You’". Interview with Christopher Rudolph, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.

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• It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Health, Healing

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• If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Writing, Blogging

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• Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

  Ving Rhames

  Football, Teacher, Art

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

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• Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Cancer, Health

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• The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Dad, Thinking

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• Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

  Helen Reddy

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

  Dave Barry

  Music, Weed, Art

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Native American, Score

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• I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.

  Merritt Wever

  Art, New York, Drama

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• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Art, Thinking, Scare

  "An Interview with She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward". BlackBook Interview, bbook.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Art, School, People

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

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• Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

  Nina Arianda

  Dream, Art, New York

  "Nina Arianda: ‘Venus In Fur’ Star On Her Broadway Role And Tony Nominations". Interview with Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2012.

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