Quotes About Performance

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

I write songs. I perform. I play the guitar. I play the keyboard.

To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker taps on her keyboard. There's really not much more than that.

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.

I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.

What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.

I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I don't play any instruments. I don't produce. I don't know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team - otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song.

I'm a percussionist, so that's most of what I know when I attack a record. Melodically, knowing the keys - my first love - that makes the perfect blend.

If you're a punter or a kicker, you don't have a lot of film study to do. There's not a lot of things to watch. You're just going to kick the ball.

You're only as good as your last kick.

The audience just give you a kick - you know, the adrenaline.

Anytime I'm on the field, I need to make every kick that's in front of me.

My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.