Quotes About Performances

At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

I watched the Olympics in 2012 in London, and there were so many great performances there, so many people, so many sports.

I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling.

Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast excellent performances in scripts that are ultimately very conventional, even conservative.

We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.

I have got a lot of confidence in my ability now, and I feel like I am going in the right direction and this shows in my performances on the pitch. As a person I feel a lot more confident.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'

As a comedian, I'm always quoting 'Caddyshack' and 'Dumb and Dumber.'

Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.

If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.

I don't actually go to that many concerts.

I've done more than a few concerts on the same stage as Nik Kershaw, and I've done a couple with Go West.

I grew up on video shoots, in the studio, backstage at concerts.

'One Leg Too Few' by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances make the most of every syllable and movement.

But theatre is also a public event, a spectacle or a show, attempting to please or amaze the audience by a display of exceptional stage achievements, that is, special performances. In that sense, like sporting events or the circus, theatre serves what I shall call the performance function: it satisfies our natural desire to achieve or witness something extraordinary.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.