Quotes About Performance

'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.

A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

Obviously there are a lot of expectations when you come to a club for a record fee but you can't change that. You just need to perform and show it on the pitch and gain respect through that.

I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

One of the important things when you're making a record or doing a performance is the sequence of the songs. It really matters a lot because you want your project, your show, or your albums to sort of have a life.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

My career record was 5-2 in penalty shootouts.

In 1996 - when, for the fifth year in a row, we had the best record among major airlines for on-time performance and for baggage handling and the fewest complaints for the number of customers carried - we dedicated an airplane to all of our 25,000 people. We put all their names on the outside of the overhead bins.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

I think the first big chance I ever got was I was one of the opening acts for UTFO and 'Roxanne Roxanne,' that whole thing. And I come on stage, it's like 5000 people in the Oakland convention center, I'd never had a record in my life, I'd never had anything in a record store.

One of the most fun parts about my job is that when the music gets recorded live at the end of the project and real musicians play it, I still get goosebumps every single time.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.

In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.