Performing Quotes - Page 4

• I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Pace

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• The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Important, Special

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.

  Jim Courier

  Loss, Winning, Effort

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

  Ice Cube

  "Mic, then movie: Ice Cube plays Soundset while prepping N.W.A. biopic (and 'Barbershop 3')". Interview with Chris Riemenschneider, www.startribune.com. May 22, 2015.

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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 was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

  Antony Hegarty

  Teacher, College, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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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• I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Simple, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• 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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• 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'm really thirsty to go on tour! I love putting on a show. If the crowd ain't acting bougie, I love performing.

  Dreezy

  Acting, Goes On, Crowds

  Source: www.mtv.com

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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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• There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

  Beck

  Song, Detours, Emotion

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.

  Lola Kirke

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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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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• In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

  Allison Silverman

  School, Character, Play

  Source: www.elle.com

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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 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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• Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Nine, Notes

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

  Sutton Foster

  Goal, Looks, Make Me Happy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

  Vince Staples

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.

  Chuck Mosley

  Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

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