Quotes About Experience

You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as you can to the source of the music.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

My experience started in the gay nightlife/drag life. I was just as consumed in ignorance about what is offensive to transpeople because at that time I hadn't found myself. I was living as a drag performer only.

And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.

Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

My background was in performing originally.

I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.

I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

I was performing from the age of three.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.