Quotes About Performance

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.