Performers Quotes

• If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

  

  William J. O'Neil
  • Firsts
  • Littles
  • Portfolios

• The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.

  

  David Finckel
  • Wine
  • Bottles
  • Pianist

• I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Important
  • Running
  • Events

• All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Trust

• A city one loves exists at no matter what distance, and its symphony is sometimes heard more clearly when one is away, as the music of an orchestra is more lucid to an audience that it sounds to the performers on the stage.

  

  Elliot Paul
  • Exists
  • Orchestra
  • Symphony

• All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Different
  • Theatre
  • Roles

• The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Ideas
  • Blow
  • Able

• I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

  

  Walter Piston
  • Point
  • Views
  • Performers

• It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.

  

  Michael Crawford
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • People
  • Vanity
  • Performers

• I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Image
  • Performers
  • Elvis

• My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Frustrated
  • Performers
  • Nicholson

• It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Want
  • Internet
  • Comedian

• It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Walking
  • Temperament
  • Trailers

• As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Shows
  • Ends
  • Grows

• A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

  

  Catie Curtis
  • Soul
  • Wise
  • Originals

• I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Son
  • Daughter

• The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Belief
  • Elements
  • Performers

• I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

  

  Richard Widmark
  • Should
  • Performers

• The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Facts
  • Differences
  • Excellence

• I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.

  

  David Finckel
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Audience

• Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Powerful

• My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

  

  Erica Schroeder
  • Advice
  • Instinct
  • Performers

• You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • People
  • Rejection
  • Performers

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