Quotes About Performance

Music without passion or soul is just a collection of notes, right?

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Research indicates that the highest performing managers and leaders are the most open and caring. The best leaders demonstrate more affection toward others and want others to be more open with them. They are more positive and passionate, more loving and compassionate, and more grateful and encouraging than their lower performing counterparts.

Movie stars, concert stars, opera stars, fallen stars sparkled on and off.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

I cannot forget that I have forgotten. I may have used the veil so successfully that I have made my performance believable to myself.

It is apparent to infinite players that wealth is not so much possessed as it is performed.

If wealth and might are to be performed, great wealth and great might must be performed brilliantly.

Titles are given at the end of play, names at the beginning.

What the winner of a finite game wins is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. I cannot entitle myself. Titles are theatrical, requiring an audience to bestow and respect them.

A finite game does not have its own time. It exists in a world's time. An audience allows players only so much time to win their titles.

Who must play, cannot play.

While no one is forced to remain a lawyer or a rodeo performer or a kundalini yogi after being selected for these roles, each role is nonetheless surrounded both by ruled restraints and expectations on the part of others. One senses a compulsion to maintain a certain level of performance, because permission to play in these games can be canceled. We cannot do whatever we please and remain lawyers or yogis—and yet we could not be either unless we pleased.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

Light bulbs up the ass, no big deal!" you say. "On a good night I can fit a Butterball and two sweet potatoes up my bum!" Aye--But here's the rub: How did these bulbs come to shine so brightly? They weren't plugged into an electrical socket... An hour before her performance, Ida lay spread-eagle on the ground, and she had a helping hand (and how) slowly, carefully, millimeter by millimeter--INSERT A BATTERY PACK INTO HER UPPER INTESTINE.

As sung by Schipa, 'Che farò senza Euridice' is indeed the grief-stricken piece that Gluck intended. The true measure of its success lies in the word-note-tone relationship, where the art and idiom of the singer is added to the art of the composer in order to ensure the effective portrayal of human emotion.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase.

Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.

treat sex as a sport and are always in pursuit of their personal best.