Quotes About Performance

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores.

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.