Performances Quotes - Page 6

• around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Years, Bridges, Knowing

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• I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

  Jack Jones

  Scotland, America, Australia

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• My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

  Lalo Schifrin

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.

  Tommy Smothers

  Brother, Couple, Writing

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• Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

  McCoy Tyner

  Giving, Trying, Way

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• Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough...I missed a note there...I'm a half-step off on the turnaround."

  Dick Latvala

  Thinking, Important, Steps

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance.

  Dick Latvala

  Team, Proud, Amazed

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• When we got to Steamboat, we were on that big stage at five in the afternoon, and it was almost at capacity. I told my guys 'no matter what we've done to get to this point, no matter what lows, what highs, right now we are here and we've got a point to prove." It was probably one of my most memorable performances thus far.

  Cody Johnson

  Memorable, Guy, Done

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• The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself. Generally they know what they're in for, and generally we all just like each other and get along. But I always find one or two or a dozen really interesting people in the audience who make the show different. And that's one of the things I really like about performing.

  John Hodgman

  Nice, Two, Self

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

  Toby Keith

  Rocks, Together, Solo

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• I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.

  Miranda Lambert

  Fashion, Artist, Who I Am

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• Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

  Kurt Ralske

  Roots, Musician, Audio

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• People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Two, People, Attention

  "John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 17, 1990.

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• A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

  Nathan Lane

  Stage Performance, Theatre, Video

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• In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? To spare a terrorist the trouble? This is a serious national issue; why must liberals lie? Searching Al Gore is purely a religious act. It is the purposeless fetishistic performance of ritual in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Lying, Airports

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• I'm satisfied with the way I play, but I don't evaluate my performances. I worry about what I can contribute defensively. I don't need to score. As long as we win, I don't care how many points I score.

  Patrick Ewing

  Winning, Play, Long

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• During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Gloves, Down And, Remember

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

  Peter Drucker

  Real, Organization, Differences

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.255, Routledge

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• We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Acceptance, Crowds

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• The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, May, Performance Review

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• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Hero, Iron

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Average, Long

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• A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

  Warren Buffett

  Taken, Years, Should

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• All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

  Warren Buffett

  Organization, Promise, Management

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• It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Decision, Inability

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