Perform Quotes

1. "Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status."
Author: Abigail Biddinger

2. "Ah, but it is an interesting thing, that these things can so seldom be proved. If I were to perform some piece of, hrmf, magic for you, here in this room, you would claim a thousand ways it could have been done. Indeed, those ways might be exceedingly unlikely, but you would cling to them rather than accept the, mmn, the chance that magic, the eternal inexplicable, might be the true agent, and if you were strong enough in yourself, unafraid, unthreatened, here in your own chambers, well perhaps there would be no magic worked at all. It is a subjective force, you see, whereas the physical laws of the artificers are objective. A gear-train will turn without faith, but magic may not. And so, when your people demand, mmn, proof, there is none, but when you have forgotten and dismissed it, then magic creeps back into the gaps where you do not look for it."
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3. "If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed."
Author: Alfred Brendel

4. "And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?"
Author: Barry Lyga

5. "Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it."
Author: Bijou Phillips

6. "True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well."
Author: Bill Owens

7. "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."
Author: Billy Joel

8. "Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?"
Author: Brian Ferneyhough

9. "That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done."
Author: Brother Lawrence

10. "Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places."
Author: Busta Rhymes

11. "In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform."
Author: Chris Hadfield

12. "I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a huge fan of repeating jokes, and I don't really do any of my old material from old stand-up acts."
Author: Daniel Tosh

13. "The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
Author: David Brinkley

14. "When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe."
Author: David Hume

15. "I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself."
Author: Dule Hill

16. "I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public."
Author: Elizabeth Berkley

17. "She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty."
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

18. "The Song of the Winged Ones is a song of celebration, written as though the singer were standing on the Dragon Isle watching the dragons flying in the sun. The words are full of wonder at the beauty of the creatures; and there is a curious pause in the middle of one of the stanzas near the end, where the singer waits a full four measures in silence for those who listen to hear the music of distant dragon wings. It seldom fails to bring echoes of something beyond the silence, and is almost never performed because many bards fear it.I love it."
Author: Elizabeth Kerner

19. "Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books."
Author: George Gurdjieff

20. "We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding."
Author: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

21. "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."
Author: Homer

22. "When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."
Author: Jackie DeShannon

23. "I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few hours; that this wonderful operation is by no means owing to the vegetation of the plant, but to the influence of light of the sun upon the plant."
Author: Jan Ingenhousz

24. "A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans."
Author: Jason Newsted

25. "I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
Author: Jay London

26. "I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen."
Author: John Lahr

27. "He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. There was a man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by the few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now? How can we go on without him?"
Author: John Steinbeck

28. "The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible."
Author: Lafcadio Hearn

29. "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
Author: Lionel Trilling

30. "The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
Author: Marcel Duchamp

31. "My job is to make sure we keep performing."
Author: Mats Sundin

32. "It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members."
Author: Meredith Monk

33. "The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals."
Author: Michael Bassey Johnson

34. "As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?"
Author: Michael Porter

35. "You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time."
Author: Missy Elliot

36. "What a performance! We are born crying and depart unhappy in silence,"
Author: Mohammed Abad Alrazak

37. "But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him."
Author: Patricia Highsmith

38. "I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing."
Author: Patti LaBelle

39. "That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
Author: Richard Donner

40. "I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'"
Author: Richie Havens

41. "It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit."
Author: Roberto Benigni

42. "If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman."
Author: Socrates

43. "I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
Author: Sonny Rollins

44. "Is truth hereIn the ugly unseemliness?The graceless momentsBefore and afterEyes are watching?In the unballerinaThe unperformed?"
Author: Stasia Ward Kehoe

45. "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."
Author: Stephen Sondheim

46. "Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best."
Author: Takeru Kobayashi

47. "The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is."
Author: Taylor Hanson

48. "Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. "I make 50 cents for showing up," he liked to joke, "and the other 50 cents is based on performance."
Author: Walter Isaacson

49. "In 1998, a year or two after I started skating, I saw Michelle Kwan at the Nagano Olympics. I liked her a lot. And I could remember every part of her performance. She was the world champion many times over a long period. And although not a gold medalist, there is no skater as respected and recognized as her. So I wanted to become someone like her."
Author: Yuna Kim

50. "I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18."
Author: Zola Jesus

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