Quotes About Performance

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously or be revered that much.

I would never shortchange an audience. I believe in doing every single performance with as much integrity and concentration and feeling as I can muster.

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

My first show was at my friend Corey Petrick's basement in Bucks County, PA.

I was disappointed with 'My Friend Pinto.' Everyone put a lot of effort into it but the final product was something no one was ready for. The story was altered and a lot of scenes were edited. I got a lot of flak for my performance.

When we did the 'Skin and Bones' tour I didn't even own an acoustic guitar, I had to borrow one from my friend.

As a bowler, my motto is not to get too excited and not to get too down after every match.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.

It's always been a dream of mine to have my own show.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

Peforming as James Brown, I didn't really have to go deep in my soul the way I do as Charles Bradley.