Quotes About Performance

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

I definitely take notes, but I feel like sometimes if I take too many notes, it kind of bogs down my mind a little bit. So, I just write down stuff that I need to remember for the game.

I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.

I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.

I feel like maybe I get more nervous when I'm singing. One, it's live. Two, there's a lot of people watching. And three, you have to make sure you get the right notes and everything.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

Growing up in a bluegrass or acoustic-oriented world, the musicians become so focused on performance, as far as playing. We tend to overanalyze the notes, so you're always trying to sharpen everything up.

I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes and you got to breathe.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

For artists like me nothing matters more than the audience's respect.

I played there a couple of times in Leverkusen, playing as the striker was nothing new for me I knew what to do - it was fully okay.