Quotes About Innovation

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

No one else has performed in a play after they've died, and I want to be the first person to do it.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

As a performer, I need to change in the ring, to be a little bit more aggressive and go about things in a different way rather than Bayley following the rules all the time.

I intend to keep reinventing myself both as a performer and also in terms of my looks for as long as possible.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had their own identity.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.