Quotes About Performance

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Dabbing started with us - QC the label - Jose Guapo, Migos, Skippa Da Flippa, PeeWee Longway. When we performed, we just dabbed, and everyone started running with it. People would do the dance, but no one would say what it was.

No one else has performed in a play after they've died, and I want to be the first person to do it.

I have worked in animation on 'King of the Hill.' I've worked in late-night with 'The Daily Show.' I've worked on single-camera stuff, whether it was a movie or television. I have performed onstage.

I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

I have performed for people around the world but it is always a different feeling when you perform for your own people.

I've lost count of how many times I have performed in Chennai.

The Apollo is where all the greats performed.

When my father was very young, he performed in Billy Rose's Aquacade.

The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

I have been really fortunate to have had some amazing audiences who have just loved my music while I have performed.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.