Quotes About Performance

When we came to America before, we opened shows in arenas for groups like Rush. It's always been a case of playing for 45 minutes for someone else's audience.

Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.

There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.

It's all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.

I can't get booked on the Fourth of July, or it'll be, 'Do you want to open for the opener for Toby Keith?' Hell, no.

The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.

Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

A good opening stand is always crucial for a team.

I've been in opening matches of pay-per-views. I've been in main events of pay-per-views, and the same mentality is applied to both, and that is, 'To this point, this is the biggest match of my life, and I'm gonna go out there and give it everything I have.'

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

I never, ever thought I would get to say I was opening a show for the Bay City Rollers.

Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.'

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle.

I really love headlining. Opening up is fun - getting to play for all these people who might not know you - but it's so much easier sometimes playing for people who know all your songs: you get that instant feedback.