Quotes About Performance

A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

No matter how good or experienced, he [Sehwag] can kill your attitude.

Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.