Quotes About Performance

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.

You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.

Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective.

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

I feel scared going before the public and it has been like this forever. After one song is over, I feel better.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

We have to put expressions in a song when we sing it.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Quite often, when I am recording a song or getting ready for a concert, I pray.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere and then transmits happiness to many, translates into money, fame, or whatever.

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

I love song and dance films in Bollywood.

Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?' Actors are infantilized so much.

The kind of films I do and I've done don't have song and dance sequences.

I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

The moment any film has song and dance sequences - where any time any character can start singing and dancing without any explanation - it can turn into a senseless film.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.