Performing Quotes - Page 34

• I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

  Kenny Rogers

  Home, Wife, Trying

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• Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Way, Affected

  "Modern Music Masters: Jason Mraz". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 5, 2010.

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• When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Growing Up, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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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• Performing in front of my fans is what I love to do and I hope I get to do it forever.

  Easton Corbin

  Forever, Fans, Fronts

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Believe, Successful

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

  Blaze Starr

  Girl, Mother, Religious

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• I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

  Elton John

  Appreciate, And Love, Granted

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.

  Tony Blackburn

  Teenager, Kids, Son

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Growing Up, People

  "Margaret Cho: No one is more sensitive about p.c. culture than white people". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.salon.com. October 3, 2015.

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• Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

  James Brown

  Heart

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• Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

  Akhenaton

  Life, Children, Believe

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• I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

  Frank McCourt

  Writing

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• To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.

  Chris Burke

  Art, Support, Parent

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• When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

  Jon Landau

  Cutting, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Native American, Score

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• This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Numbers, People

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

  Odeya Rush

  School, Talent, Theater

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Country, Fun, Love Is

  "Vanessa Hudges, Ashley Tisdale and Monique Coleman Spill All on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Interview, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I have never stopped performing live.I've been blessed with the talent to sing and play the piano so I can fit into a lot of different configurations and venues. I play public and private performances and it has served me well. And I've been fortunate to work in Europe and Asia as well as The US. So for those who have not attended my shows, it doesn't mean I'm not performing.

  Oleta Adams

  Blessed, Mean, Play

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• It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a part of that, especially when you're used to performing all your own material. It's OK with drama, I like being handed great material but I think with comedy it's far more personal and probably a lot harder for me to find a fit.

  Eric Bana

  Drama, Thinking, Trying

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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