Quotes About Performance

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

Never play anything the same way twice.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.