Performing Quotes - Page 39

• On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Good Night, Focus, Mind

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• The day I'm in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn't happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman.

  Christopher Titus

  Wall, Men, America

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

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• Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.

  Bruce Bruce

  Real, Average, Guy

  "Bruce Bruce: Losin' It", Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.

  Eddie Griffin

  Matter, Stores, Groceries

  FaceBook post by Eddie Griffin from Mar 19, 2014

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• I pride myself on never using a cuss word on stage. Ever. I headline in Las Vegas every year, and this summer I am performing on an Alaskan cruise. Not too many comedians can pull that off. Funny thing is, my show doesn't change for Vegas.

  Henry Cho

  Summer, Pride, Vegas

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• I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

  Dat Phan

  Jobs, Shopping, Two

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• When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Dying, Trying

  "That’s how he dooz it! One-on-One with Comedian JB Smoove". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.

  Todd Newton

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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

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• Bible prophecies indicate that in the last dispensation of the gospel, there would be a restoration of all of the principles and practices of former dispensations, which includes temple-building and the performing of ordinances therein.

  David B. Haight

  Practice, Principles, Would Be

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• I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

  John Lennon

  Xenon, Fleas, Monk

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• It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Tasks, Done, Surveys

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• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

  Freida Pinto

  Somewhere Else, Doctors, Order

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.

  Delbert McClinton

  Goes On, Lasts, Testing Yourself

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• I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.

  Delbert McClinton

  Passion, Skills, Numbers

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• Traveling around is what I Like to Do. Me And my boy Arab we live on the road. Doing shows is what I love to do. I put my heart and soul on the track and I Love the response I get. Performing wit UNK? Mane daz a dream come true. He's one of my favorite artist and Inspirations. So when they said Soulja Boy you got a show wit UNK man. Im like Walk It Out UNK? LETS GO!

  Soulja Boy

  Letting Go, Dream, Inspiration

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• In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, People, Worry

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• Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Easy

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• I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.

  Chris Hesse

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the music from the Kino Kultura album i.e. the soundtrack music I've been doing. It is difficult to organise them all and to have those people for a certain date since they all have their own obligations and arrangements. It is a great privilege to gather all those musicians at one place, especially these that I work with, since they perform regularly abroad, at weddings or are working somewhere else.

  Vlatko Stefanovski

  Somewhere Else, People, Musician

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• I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Teaching, Native American, School

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• I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

  Thelma Houston

  Years, Twenties, Albums

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• I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

  Eileen Myles

  Reading, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.

  Alec Baldwin

  Mind, Watches, Want

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• With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my practicing when I was younger.

  McCoy Tyner

  Practice, Hard

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• I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

  Corey Smith

  Song, Writing, People

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