Quotes About Performance

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

The first time I heard a professional jazz quartet practicing in a house down the street it was almost like an out-of-body experience.

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

Whether it's performing a concert with my quartet or sitting in with my peers, enjoying musical conversations at home with my brothers or hanging and playing choro with my friends - sharing moments in that bright space of music are the happiest times.

Sometimes a busted queen is more entertaining than a polished queen.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

Like I said, I've always been a lazy drag queen. I'm actually a boy and I hate dressing up. I don't hate it. It's fun, but it's not something that I like doing all the time.

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.

A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.

I'm a performing queen.

Devin's a drama queen.

I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'

I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.

Well... I don't think everyone can actually be a drag queen, but I think everyone should investigate drag.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.

I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking about.