Quotes About Performance

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician

You're concerned with the people who showed up, not the ones who didn't. So always give them a show, and never look at the empty seats!

There is an art to entertaining a crowd. If you've got a bevy of hit songs, you can entertain by simply playing them one after another. If you're a knockout in size 28 jeans who can take away the breath of the females in the audience by simply walking on the stage, you're entertaining. But since I have never fallen into either category, I have had to rely on other attributes.

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Just bringing our full attention to what we are doing, and when we are done, we go home. But we are forever changed—while the performance is over, the music now lives within us.

O que me levou à convicção de que os "charmes femininos" que apreciamos não são nada femininos, mas apenas reflexos da masculinidade — desenvolvidos para nos agradar porque elas precisam nos agradar —, nem um pouco essenciais ao desempenho.

As an answer on any test, the best of you will always be better than the least of you.

The manner of your delivery always matters when you are charged with delivering the deliverables.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

It's not what you do, it's how you do it.

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

Fozzetto was sheathed in an ebony jumpsuit with a weightlifter cut in the front. Bands of holographic foil twined around his thighs and wound down to the tops of his silver space boots. He teetered on at least six inches of platform heel; maybe Kiss had had a garage sale.

Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night.

To achieve the kind of hard beat 'Gasm needed to back up Hartz's guitar madman act, Reichmann could have done as well pounding on a trash-can lid.

they drive your nation, but just as a hired driver drives a bus. The driver cannot start believing he owns the bus. The driver should also know that if he doesn't drive well, he will be removed.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

Why doesn't th' feller who sayz 'I'm no speechmaker,' let it go at that instead o' givin' a demonstration?

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

There are many who measure what they are doing by what they can report. They go out with garrulity in the morning, and come back with statistics at night.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

Margarete Matzenauer reveled in the gorgeous opulence of her royal purple voice.