Performing Quotes
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I like performing in front of big crowds.
D.R.A.M. -
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
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Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.
Jason Mraz -
When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
Patina Miller -
I liked performing, but not the struggle.
Irene Cara Escalera -
One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm performing, or even lecturing, it's like I'm myself again, and that was a really amazing discovery - that, all of a sudden, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
Celine Dion -
Performing live was something that I had to really work at.
Syd
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I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith -
And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.
Scott Bakula -
Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
Performing at this level requires an absolute commitment and dedication. You can't half commit.
Adam Clayton U2 -
I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.
Ellie Goulding
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Fiona Shaw -
We're all performing for someone.
Rachel Kushner -
When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
Loudon Wainwright III -
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.
R. Carlos Nakai -
It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
Samantha Bond -
The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.
Brian Tracy
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.
Juanes