Quotes About Performance

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.