Performers Quotes - Page 31

• There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

  Cholly Atkins

  Artist, Training, Singers

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• He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musician, Jazz, Composer

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• The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Bread, Comedy, Crumbs

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• The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

  Iggy Pop

  Rip, Ideas, People

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.

  J. B. Smoove

  Broken, Comedian, Creation

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• It would be awesome to know how to sing and be some sort of performer; to feed off other's people's energy is intense. The feeling they must feel would be cool. Too bad I can't sing.

  Nick Viall

  People, Feelings, Energy

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• Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs.

  Alec Baldwin

  Song, Rocks, Forever

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• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  Lady Gaga

  Years, Five Year Olds, Five Years

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• I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

  Marilyn Manson

  Real, Past, People

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• I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Focus, Together

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps responding really well. It changes itself every year; it ages, it goes through all these different environmental changes, and of course, the travelling...It develops on its own, just as any performer does. It's a very stable instrument, so I can rely on it, but at the same time it always shows me a different side of things than I expect.

  Hilary Hahn

  Years, Environmental, Age

  "Violinist.com interview with Hilary Hahn". Interview with Laurie Niles, www.violinist.com. October 22, 2007.

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• A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.

  Nina Gordon

  Writing, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

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• I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.

  Liberace

  Pain, Thinking, Media

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• As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Impact, Important, Teens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.

  Justin Nozuka

  Thinking, Artist, Trying

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• I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.

  Shane Filan

  Crazy, Feet, Firsts

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• Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

  Ben Stein

  Gratitude, Laughter, Relief

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• The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

  Brian Tracy

  Average, Differences, Tiny

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• Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Weekend, Asian, Different

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

  Dick Cavett

  Talent, Knows

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• I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

  Rosanne Cash

  Want, Grew, Songwriters

  "Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2010.

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• I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

  Rosanne Cash

  Ideas, Feelings, Depth

  "Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2010.

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• I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

  Allen Toussaint

  Piano, Forte, Session

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

  Renee Montagne

  Successful, America, Black

  "What Is The Cultural Impact Of Bill Cosby's Arrest On Sex Crimes?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Renee Montagne, nprillinois.org. December 31, 2015.

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• So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.

  Julie Halston

  Mean, Gay, Example

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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