Quotes About Inspiration

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.

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.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

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.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

I'm a fan of Rihanna. I have all her albums. I love her music; she's a great performer. We've both gone on to great things. It's all love.

I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.

Because Slash is such a well-known performer all over the world, it definitely helped with the awareness of Alter Bridge. People come up to me and say that they saw me playing with Slash, and it turned them on to the other things I do.

There are lots of reasons people come to Beyonce shows. There's the music, her dancing; all in all a bedazzling show. She's a great performer and singer.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.

I am a big fan of Sakshi Tanwar. I love her as a performer.

I'm an athlete. I'm a performer. Why the hell did I never think of combining the two?

I always give credit to Scotty 2 Hotty. He is an amazing teacher. I was in his class for, I want to say three months and I learned so much and he helped me grow, not only as a performer, but as a person. He was always there for me.

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

I think there's something for anyone who wants to be a performer in Seattle.

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 definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's a singer and my mom's a singer, so it kind of runs in the family and I just thought it was normal.