Performing Quotes - Page 24

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  Zedd

  Song, Writing, Piano

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• There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play a passage or a page of something. ... What I'm trying to indicate is that each day should contain some amount of performing. You should engage in the deliberate act of story telling each day you practice. Don't only gather information when you practice, spend time imparting it. This is important.

  Arnold Jacobs

  Practice, Play, Important

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• My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Writing, Years

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• I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

  Ricky Jay

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.

  Lady G

  Doctors, Healthy, Alive

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• Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Goal, Important

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• I love intimacy, always, of performing.

  Julio Iglesias

  Intimacy

  "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language... of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.

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• If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Age, Tables

  "Frank Lampard will talk to England manager Roy Hodgson about next move" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

  Fiona Shaw

  Theater, Stills, Cork

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

  Hayley Williams

  Workout, Tired, Nuts

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Jobs, Eye, Hands

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• Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

  Cathy Rigby

  Golf, Vulnerable

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• I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

  Chance the Rapper

  Team, Doe, Needs

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• A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

  Irving Kristol

  Girl, Sex, Years

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• The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Rights, Tasks

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

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• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  Natalia Kills

  Hero, Female, Crowds

  "On the Rise: The Natalia Kills Experience". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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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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• I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

  Gaetano Pesce

  Real, Needs, Logic

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• Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.

  Ian Shoales

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Rocks

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• Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Party, Character

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• When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Song, Heart, Skills

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• My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

  Dee Snider

  Sound, Ordinary, Different

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

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• Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Suffering, Failing

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Resentment

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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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