Quotes About Performance

I don't rank receivers myself, because I feel like I'm one of the top.

There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a snooker match. Each orchestra has different things to offer.

I've gone through a lot to get here. I'm doing my job. And that No. 1 ranking next to my name says I'm doing my job better than a good percentage of everyone else.

Most people want to be on TV as much as possible. I went up the ranks so fast because I was doing impressions, and nobody was really doing it when I started. I never got a chance to explore what's my comfort level onstage.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.

No one has advanced the argument that all-male fighting forces have been handicapped in their war-making abilities over the millennia because they did not include women in their ranks.

Ultimately, if someone's paying hard-earned money to see me play live, they don't want a rant about what's happening on the other side of the world. They don't want to know which way they should vote.

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

I don't just rap - I sing and I dance as well.

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

When you rap, you're using all of yourself.

I will rap circles around anybody.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I don't listen to rap all the time. Even though I rap, rap can be nerve-wracking.

I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It's like 50-50.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

I'm not very good with rap and things like that.