Performing Quotes
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PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.
Michael Arad -
I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.
Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil -
When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
Erykah Badu -
There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?
Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles -
No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.
Loretta Lynn -
Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.
Keanu Reeves -
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
James Brown
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Performing is the most powerful drug on earth. I get a come-down if we don't gig for a few weeks, it's unbelievable.
Leeroy Thornhill The Prodigy -
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.
Ricky Jay -
To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
Kevin Spacey -
When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
Van Morrison -
I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
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I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.
Bret Michael Sychak Poison -
Performing at the CIAA tournament was absolutely so cool because I am proud to say that I am an Alumni of an HBC.
Terry Ellis En Vogue -
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
Seth Godin -
They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
Stephen Sondheim -
When you walk out of your apartment, you think about performing; you do not think about how your opponent looks. So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun.
Caster Semenya -
Performing was terrifying.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.
Julia Roberts -
I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.
Al Pacino -
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
Peter O'Toole