Performing Quotes - Page 11

• I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

  Lady Gaga

  New York, Said, Call Me

  "How Stefani Germanotta Became Lady Gaga". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

  Ellie Goulding

  Land, Feet, Males

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

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• I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

  Grimes

  Sick, Hard

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• Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

  Gary Hamel

  Loyalty, Irrelevance, Long

  "Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation". Interview with Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. December 04, 2012.

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• Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Airplane, People, Rooms

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• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  Vanilla Ice

  Years, Firsts, Concerts

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• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  Eddie Izzard

  Trying, Gigs, Gaps

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

  Mick Jagger

  Giving Up, One Day, Stage

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• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  Etta James

  Girl, Years, People

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• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Art, College, Idols

  Interview With Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, Philadelphia, Festivals

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

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• The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

  Penn Jillette

  Skills, Magic, Use

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

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• I'm terrified of performing live.

  Rashida Jones

  Performing Live, Terrified

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• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  Victoria Justice

  Remember, I Can

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• If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Creativity, Helping Others

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

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Basketball, Memories

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• I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

  Patti LaBelle

  Trouble, Chorus, Decided

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• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Way, Just One

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• As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.

  Jon Landau

  Writing, Rocks, Dancing

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• I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

  Amy Lee

  Dog, Musical, Vets

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• I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

  Annie Lennox

  Song, Views, People

  'The world has become more sexualised' by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Talking, Years, People

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• I love performing in Las Vegas.

  Holly Madison

  Vegas, Las Vegas

  "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Shy

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 2001.

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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