Performing Quotes - Page 40

• The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself. Generally they know what they're in for, and generally we all just like each other and get along. But I always find one or two or a dozen really interesting people in the audience who make the show different. And that's one of the things I really like about performing.

  John Hodgman

  Nice, Two, Self

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.

  Herbie Hancock

  Kids, Impact, Years

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• I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

  Carole King

  Art, New York, School

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• In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Results, Should, Circumstances

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• I love being in the studio. It's really great. I like it a lot. But of course, I like performing more. But when I'm in the studio mode, it's cool. I like to really focus on it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Love Is, Focus, Really Great

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• If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

  Kylie Minogue

  Records, Being Me, Shows

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• What drives me now is the desire to be able to keep doing this. I love making records and performing, and success means I will continue to have the privilege to do that. I know it's not going to last forever, but I'd like to keep having success as long as I can so that I can still be a part of this industry.

  Martina McBride

  Mean, Long, Forever

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• But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten He says, 'This is the one about whom it is written, 'I'll send my messenger ahead of you who will prepare Your way before You.' Jesus says, 'If it wasn't for John, I wouldn't even be here performing these miracles.'

  Steven Furtick

  Jesus, Miracle, Crowds

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• It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

  John Hiatt

  Writing, Singers, Singer-songwriters

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• If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Order, Giving, Drug

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• The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

  Shane Filan

  Crowds, Stage, Adrenaline

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• I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

  George Edward Moore

  Done, Action, Chosen

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• The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

  Steve Coogan

  People, Feelings, Thrill

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• Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Nice, Kids, Blue

  "If you don't want to hear an edgy joke, don't listen" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.

  Jimmy Connors

  People, Missing, Trying

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• We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Technology, Connections, Tasks

  "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain" by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

  Radhanath Swami

  Consciousness, Devotion, Should

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• I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Three, Partners

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• At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our country's best traditions under circumstances both difficult and complex. Thanks to their determined spirit of patriotism and professionalism, our country has a powerful and unified defense team, employing its forces in the constant quest for peace and freedom.

  Melvin Laird

  Country, Powerful, Team

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• I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.

  Russell Peters

  Country, Taken, People

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• I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

  Julianne Hough

  Running, Trying, Fields

  "Julianne Hough Shares Beauty, Fashion, and Workout Secrets!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2009.

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• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

  Moby

  Done, Monkeys, Stuff

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

  Hal Holbrook

  Golf, Years, Play

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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