Performing Quotes - Page 30

• I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, Grateful, Thinking

  "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.

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• There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

  Hannibal Buress

  Winning, Black, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

  Billy Joel

  Creative, Records, Outlets

  "Q&A WITH BILLY JOEL : 'They See Me as One of Them' : Washed Up? Not to Fans of the Singer's New Album and World Tour". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. December 11, 1993.

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• The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Perfection, Grace, Pretending

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.

  Eliot Lewis

  Media, Order, Careers

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• I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

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• To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them.

  Clemence Poesy

  Mean, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Names, Issues

  George Whitefield (1812). “Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield”, p.412

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• I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

  Matisyahu

  Coffee, Home, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Taken, Typical, Deeds

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• I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.

  Wayne White

  Thinking, Crowds, Spirit

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

  Herb Alpert

  Art, Painting, Moments

  FaceBook post by Herb Alpert from Apr 26, 2017

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• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, School, Sane

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• A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.

  George Kohlrieser

  Powerful, Team, Communication

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• I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

  Josh Young

  School, Artist, College

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• Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

  Mick Jagger

  Sex, Night, Thinking

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• As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

  Ariel Pink

  Thinking, Work Out, Way

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Successful, Sight

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• A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

  Manny Montana

  Always Trying, People, Hiding

  Source: collider.com

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• I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

  Ariel Pink

  Artist, Calling, Wanted

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

  Britney Spears

  People, Different, Therapy

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• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Rip, Writing, Heart

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• Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

  Shelly Glover

  Art, Government, Support

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• Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.

  Ted Alexandro

  Silly, Years, Political

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

  Clive Owen

  Challenges, Way, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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