Quotes About Performance

When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

Before really high-pressured gigs I tend to freeze and crawl into bed. Under the covers you just feel safe for a little while.

Playing gigs is what it's about for me.

One of the things I loved about Black Sabbath was, when we were on the road, there were times we had been on the road for so long and we were tired and we were exhausted. We would show up at gigs and we were so tired that we would be fast asleep in the dressing room. Our road manager would come in and say, '20 minutes, guys.'

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

There's a lot of downtime when we're not on stage leading up to the gigs.

Whenever a young comic asks me for advice I only have two things to say. One is to try and do what you think is genuinely funny and the other is just do loads of gigs.

In the end when we're on stage, we push buttons, but when we're in the studio we're actually creating music that we play in gigs.

I went from playing small gigs for 80 people to like 2,000 or 3,000 people, and they were arriving with all this expectation and excitement.

Dusty Rhodes play good-man gimmick. He party with me long, long time in the Florida.

The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.

A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.

I recognize them for what they were. 'DeDe Dinah,' 'Ginger Bread,' come on. They're fun things. They're middle of the road. It wasn't really rock and roll. I don't know what it was, but it was something accepted and bought, and people still like them. When I reminiscence on stage, people respond. They really like those songs.

I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

I don't go in there thinking about my family, friends, girlfriend, or my daughter. I want to prove to my coach that I'm the best. I don't care about anyone else.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.

You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.