Quotes About Performance

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

Lena, glowing like a tiger-lily, swept to the piano

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

The show got mixed review, but LuPone was beloved by the critics, though she revealed in a 2007 interview in the New York Times, "'Evita' was the worst experience of my life. I was screaming my way through the part. And I had no support from the producers, who wanted a star performance onstage, but treated me as an unknown backstage. It was like Beirut, and I fought like a banshee.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.

You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!

Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera, that is, provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns, so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.