Quotes About Artistry

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

I just like to write and then perform.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.