Quotes About Performance

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.

When touring I get to travel around with my best friends, do a show I love and I'm confident people will enjoy, and have all the adrenalin that comes with performing.

There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny things to say.

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

I think the national team is more like a traveling circus. It's hard to get that translation into the NWSL teams.

I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on traveling, keep on doing shows, and hopefully making better albums. That's always my goal.

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.

Just traveling the world, and getting to live the highs and lows of what we do, makes you a better talent and a better performer.

It's always difficult to be a traveling musician and still keep things together.

Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling.

People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and connection.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.