Quotes About Performance

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

I think it's not only Babymetal's sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

Of course, if you're gonna make a rap song, you're gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.

If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.

I probably sound like a broken record every time I do a race, but I always look for the bad. That's just kind of how I work.

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

She was a performance artist calling herself Lady Gaga, who had a European dance-club sound and pop-star aspirations - elements that historically haven't mixed.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,' and 'Singin' In The Rain.'

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.