Performer Quotes
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If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.
Ben Lee
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I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.
Michael Jackson
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In regards to live shows, space is very important to me. Space and context should complement the music in some way; you gain so much from it. It enhances the dialogue between audience and performer. I'm very much aware of this when choosing venues. I say no to 90% of booking offers. Somehow I feel the venue needs to make sense.
Einar Selvik
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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
Nat Hentoff
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."
Laurie Anderson
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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini
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There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.
Stephen Hough
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Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
George Wendt
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When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of 'Cats.' And I was, like, absolutely silent - which for a 3-year-old never happens - and I turned to her and said, 'I need to do this.' That's when I started my performer journey.
Milly Shapiro
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I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
Anneliese Louise van der Pol
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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.
Nikki Yanofsky