Performing Quotes - Page 3

• I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got into high school, it just got more serious. I feel like it became more of a vocation. It became clear to me at that point that I wanted to pursue it.

  Zachary Quinto

  School, Four, Serious

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.

  Zachary Quinto

  Summer, Art, Home

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.

  Aoife O'Donovan

  Different, Looks, Band

  "The Enchanting Solo Flight of Singer Aoife O’Donovan". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2016.

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Art, Kids, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Comedian, Trying

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• Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

  James Corden

  Jobs, Best Job, People

  "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.

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• My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, War

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• I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

  Janet Jackson

  Horse, Dad, Jockeys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

  Christina Grimmie

  Writing, Dancing, Looks

  Source: glittermagrocks.com

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• When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

  Andy Daly

  Philosophy, Special, Comedy

  "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  People, Band, Care

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because there were too many screaming fans and they were playing in larger and larger venues so they couldn't even hear what they were playing, it just wasn't any fun any more.

  Tod Machover

  Fun, Fans, Given

  "A Conversation with MIT Lab Inventor & Composer Tod Machover". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss them, I only miss performing them. The actual sweatiness of the fur and foam and fleece? Not so much.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Character, Careers, Missing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

  Erica Schroeder

  Play, Actors, Difficult

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive and you couldn't perform in front of people. The best for me was performing for the Love Parade. That was kind of a blessing. I was never respected as an electronic artist. I was very big as a hip-hop DJ in my home town and in Germany. And then becoming an electronic artist, it was very hard for me to fight my way up. It still is, to be honest. I can still watch the Love Parade on YouTube, and I still put my hand over my head.

  Loco Dice

  Home, Fighting, Artist

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• For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.

  Yoshi Wada

  Long, Musical, Use

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.

  James Corden

  People, Dancing, Singing

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

  Matt Berninger

  Light, Way, Stage

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out to me the most.

  Rayvon Owen

  People, Sticks, Week

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.

  Rayvon Owen

  Worry, Competition, Focused

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

  Juicy J

  Trying, Together, Stuff

  "Three 6 Mafia". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 12, 2006.

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• Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.

  Yoshi Wada

  Sound, Different, Bagpipes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

  Kylie Minogue

  Names, Touring, Shoulders

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Circles, Important

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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