Performing Quotes
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And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy Buffett -
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton
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I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.
Maddie Ziegler -
There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.
Petula Clark -
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
Renee Fleming -
I grew up performing in theatre.
Valorie Curry -
When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.
Jason Mraz -
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom
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I really like performing for people.
Dan Harmon -
If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
Kylie Minogue -
The toughest thing about performing here is, where do you go from here? Next week, I'm at the Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Center.
Lewis Black -
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
Zola Jesus -
I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
Bebe Neuwirth -
I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand -
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
Dan Rather -
There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.
R. C. Sproul
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
Michael Emerson