Rehearsal Quotes - Page 8

• Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

  Neil Young

  Play, Clubs, Truck

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• The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Stuff, Hearing, Assuming

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• I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, Sometimes, Theater

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

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• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  Ville Valo

  Writing, Journey, Track

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• I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

  Peter Ustinov

  Daughter, Kings, Honesty

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• Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

  Gene Tierney

  Rooms, Chemistry, Stage

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  Idries Shah

  Age, Laziness, Incapacity

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.147, Octagon Press Ltd

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• So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

  Benjamin Harkarvy

  Dance, Ballet, Magic

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• The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

  Alfred Jarry

  Artist, Unique, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

  Mark Gibbs

  Technology, Numbers, People

  "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

  Jaco Pastorius

  Tubing, Next, Jazz

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• Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

  Brett Ratner

  "'Tower Heist' Director Brett Ratner Issues Apology for Gay Slur" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.

  Lauren Beukes

  Media, Wings, Trying

  "Broken Monsters". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2014.

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• I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.

  Seohyun

  Chatting

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• The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

  Thomas Powers

  Sorry, Play, Trying

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• I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

  Trevor Nunn

  Ideas, Challenges, Development

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• James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

  Leslie Caron

  Ivory, Firsts, Actors

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• Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Names, Heaven

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.

  Harry Shearer

  Home, Night, Radio

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes and theatrics, but in terms of worship and devotion to the One we will worship for all eternity - the Lamb who sits on the throne of heaven.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Heaven, Dresses

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• For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

  David Jeremiah

  Girl, Father, Love And Marriage

  David Jeremiah, Carole C. Carlson (1988). “Exposing the Myths of Parenthood”, W Publishing Group

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• Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Ideas

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

  Nora Ephron

  Graduation, Education, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 24, 2016

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• Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Band, Want

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

  Harold Prince

  Thinking, Problem, Stage

  "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview with Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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