Quotes About Performance

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

He means well" is useless unless he does well.

To the memory of those who made us laugh: the motley mountebanks, the clowns, the buffoons, in all times and in all nations, whose efforts have lightened our burden a little, this picture is affectionately dedicated.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

I rock, therefore I am.

Artists have the ability 2 changes lives with a single per4mance.

What do you gargle with? Pebbles? (to singer Tom Jones after a 1969 Royal Variety performance)

Private business enterprise requires and rewards stupid employees,not smart ones.

The result of bad performance is the absence of a spirit of interaction between strategy and execution.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

Never promise more than you can perform.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

In the world the theater is worship—in Christendom the churches are. Is there a difference?[1] —Søren Kierkegaard

He's reading it pretty good, but he's still reading it from the page, and every once in a while he stumbles over his words.

Well thank you, Trudi," Now falsely modest again. "But I Don't think I won the scene." "Well, of course, you did," dismissing his protest. "You had all the dialogue but," she warns him. "In our big scene tomorrow, that's another story. So watch out.

It reminds me what Uma Thurman once said about actors improvising: "What most actors call improvising is just stammering and swearing. But another word for improvising is writing. And that's not what you pay actors to do.

Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

As soon as you declare it a test, your body is going to secrete adrenaline, because you will be saying to yourself, "Uh-oh. I'd better do well," while you simultaneously imagine yourself failing. That process will cause you to feel anxious. The more you set up future events as tests, the more you are going to feel anxious.

When he played, though—when he played he could liquefy your soul. He walked on water—well, his fingers did—liquid supple and fluid smooth, running, dripping, flowing.

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Why do you play at being a woman?