Quotes About Performance

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

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Å'uvre Promesse Promettez. Elle a été interprétée pour la première fois au Jeanette Cochrane Theatre, à Londres, en 1966. C'était la dernière Å"uvre de la soirée. Yoko Ono a cassé un vase sur la scène et a demandé aux spectateurs de ramasser les morceaux et de les emporter chez eux, promettant qu'il se réuniraient tous dans 10 ans, rapporteraient les morceaux et reconstitueraient le vase.

Urameshi.. This may be our team's last match. If that's the case... ...We'll make it ONE HECK OF A SHOW!! -Kuwabara YuYu Hakusho

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

I like to, in the playoffs, I like to take a body of work in the last month. I just don't care what happened in September because I don't think it's really relevant.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

Um onnagata é uma criança nascida da união ilícita entre sonho e realidade.

I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.

No matter how serious the obligation, a star is more of a star if he never arrives. Absence is his forte. The question of whether he'll show up gives the event a ceaseless undercurrent of suspense. But a true star never arrives. Showing up is for second-rate actors who need to seek attention.

In Singapore, as befits that no-nonsense city state, they followed this line of thinking even further, and pegged ministerial salaries to the national GDP. When the Singaporean economy grows, ministers get a raise, as if that is what their job is all about.

In the late twentieth century democracies usually outperformed dictatorships because democracies were better at data processing.

AI is nowhere near human-like existence. But 99 per cent of human qualities and abilities are simply redundant for the performance of most modern jobs. For AI to squeeze humans out of the job market it needs only outperform us in the specific abilities a particular profession demands.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing."

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Dancing and singing, movements on the stage, and the different types of miming are all acts performed by the body. Moments of "no action" occur in between…. The actions before and after an interval of "no action" must be linked by entering the state of mindlessness in which the actor conceals even from himself his own intent.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." —James J. Ling

Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well.

out from under it. "We never do anything well 'til we cease to think about the manner of doing it." —William Hazlitt