Quotes About Recital

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.

It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle-Bug, began the creature, in a frank and friendly tone.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am.

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover.

Pen told the tale, again; the repetition was beginning to seem more like the memory of a memory than the thing itself.

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

Love mirrors and validates humanity to be a human; indeed, it is an authentic and a natural recital.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

I remember when I gave my first recital. I thought, 'Oh, my goodness, people are coming to hear me.' I didn't expect anyone to come, and then the whole hall filled up. Of course, it wasn't a big hall, and some of the people were my friends and family.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Hermetic angelology, studied by Corbin in his Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, posits a middle reality between sensory perceptions and divine revelations.

Apparently Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.