Performance Quotes
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The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
Laurie Anderson -
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
Danai Gurira
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
Larry Dixon -
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Jack Bowman -
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
Van Morrison -
I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
Gareth Gates -
Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
Manny Pacquiao
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
Ioan Gruffudd -
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Wallace Shawn -
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
Yoko Ono -
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston -
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
Gary Neville -
There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
Rachel Platten
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.
Kassie DePaiva -
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Jack Bowman -
I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.
Alannah Myles
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown -
Obviously, it's not a performance that we're proud of. But nobody's going in the tank, or giving up. We're going to come out next week and have a lot of our problems fixed.
Adam Goldberg -
There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.
Brett Gelman