Performing Quotes
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Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
Bradley Joseph
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I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing
Nora Dunn
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There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.
Michael Jackson
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
Paul Newman
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I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.
Evgeni Plushenko
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I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Michael Jackson
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I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.
Syd
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I want to be in the performing arts. This is what I want to do. So this gives me the experience of performing in front of such a huge crowd.
Max Ehrich
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I think song 'Can't Stop Workin' it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
Harry Vardon
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
Antoniette Costa
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
Steve Martin
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I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.
Judith Hill
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I still get nervous sometimes before performing.
Mariah Carey
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Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
Thelma Houston
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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael Tippett
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I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.
Delbert McClinton
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I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".
Sandra Cisneros
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Donald Trump is already losing badly to Hillary Clinton. He is a weak candidate, and he's performing that way.
Evan McMullin
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What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.
Michael Jackson
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I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
Nolan Sotillo
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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
Simon Callow
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A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.
Alfie Kohn