Quotes About Performance

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.