Quotes About Performance

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Put out great music, and that's that