Quotes About Performers

In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.

Every movement, every glance, every low-pitched word is a work of art. Yes, they are performers, too, like me.

The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and poetry." That word, "freedom," was secretly on the lips of many. In that sense, Van's message became unintentionally political.

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

In both its positive and its negative aspects the anima/animus relationship is always full of "animosity," i.e., it is emotional, and hence collective. Affects lower the level of the relationship and bring it closer to the common instinctual basis, which no longer has anything individual about it. Very often the relationship runs its course heedless of its human performers, who afterwards do not know what happened to them.

Therefore, if you're in a marketplace where the consumer has access to all performers, and everyone's q value is clear, the consumer will choose the very best. Even if the talent advantage of the best is small compared to the next rung down on the skill ladder, the superstars still win the bulk of the market. In the 1980s, when Rosen studied this

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Long considered godless vagabonds, professional performers in France had officially been forbidden the sacraments until 1790. Many, in past centuries, had never bothered to secure the necessary dispensations—obtainable through confession to a sympathetic priest and a few discreet bribes—that would have allowed them to marry with the blessing of the Church, and so the immorality of actors had become notorious.

At the end of the day, I look at it like this: pro wrestling is really hard on the performers, the luchadoras, and any time a performer is in a position to do something good for themselves and make money, I'm always happy to see that happen.

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, 'Gosh, I'm sorry about that,' or, 'Here, let me give you a job.' It doesn't happen that way. You can see why performers get very self-absorbed.

Rarely is the best New Orleans music found in a concert hall where the audience sits separated from the performers by a proscenium

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking.

In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.

No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh.

Comedians really are like a species. That's not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your dues, though.