Performing Quotes - Page 9

• Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.

  NAO

  Song, People, Done

  Source: acclaimmag.com

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• I don't personally feel comfortable performing in a comedy club, mainly because as an audience member, I've never enjoyed that experience. It feels a little bit theme-park-ish to me, in that it's a club whose product is comedy. I find that weird. It's like those specialty chocolate stores, where everything is chocolate. It's too specific. I like going somewhere that specializes in variety.

  Michael Showalter

  Chocolate, Comedy, Audience

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it, and I don't have any need to join into that ever again. It's too counterproductive to writing music and performing to the best of your abilities. It's okay when you're 20 years old - you're getting out there and you're learning - but not when you're 30 years old.

  Jack White

  Writing, Scene, Ability

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The music I'm playing now is the music I always imagined myself playing when I was a kid. It's been nice to use my instrument a bit more - play the guitar in a more fun way with riffs and stuff like that - rather than just propping up a whole song with a guitar and my vocals. There's so much more energy in the crowd as well; they've been bouncing around and having fun, and it's nice to feel like you're a part of something in a room rather than just performing for a crowd.

  Marika Hackman

  Song, Fun, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I look back at the songs I was writing when I was effectively a child, there's a big contrast, so I've learnt a lot along the way. I think it's a confidence thing; the biggest thing that's affected me, both in writing and performing, is a growth in confidence.

  Marika Hackman

  Song, Children, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism. I feel formally that I've scratched the surface of something very important about the nature of nonfiction film, about what we're very rarely honest about: When you film anybody, they start performing.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Important, Honest, Film

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've been performing live a long time, even before doing dance music clubs downtown. I used to watch clips of Beyoncé to learn how to perform in front of people. I got my jitters out in front of my friends.

  Nomi Ruiz

  Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Belief is everything when you're performing something. If you don't have the belief behind it, then that actually puts a shunt on the character. It's like, "Does the character believe this for a minute?"

  James Callis

  Believe, Character, Belief

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Touring and performing is the best part of my job. I love it. I guess I like pop and rock. Really getting into a powerful stage performane, running around like crazy on the stage.

  Vanessa Amorosi

  Running, Powerful, Crazy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Closure, Dramatic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just don't want to be bored. That's the only criteria I have when I choose a role to play. I like it if the script is good and the director seems like he's gonna be good. But if I can find a variety of things to do, which I feel like I manage to do, as far as the actual performing goes and the character, that's huge for me. To be able to feel like I can do a fairly diverse array of things. I've been lucky in that way. I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice.

  Paul Giamatti

  Nice, Character, Bored

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think that live music is really pretentious - all of it. I hate festivals and live shows, because as soon as I get on stage, I start performing for people and it becomes about sex, banter, and skill. They're looking at me and not thinking about themselves. I'm thinking about how cool I look. It's just stupid - all live music is really stupid. I wouldn't encourage going to see anybody live, ever. Not even me.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Hate, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never wanted to be anything other than an actor. I started performing on Broadway when I was 8 years old. My first night on stage, I told my mom, "This is what I want to do. I was always a very out-there kid. The sad thing about acting business is it's so fleeting. If I couldn't do that, I was going to go to school and study law and become a lawyer. But I probably would have been miserable, or they would have had some very theatrical court sessions.

  Lea Michele

  Mom, Kids, School

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

  Chris Lilley

  School, Students, Study

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up because it's your own commentary and you get to see the reaction from the audience that's right there in front of you. I also love coming up with characters and watching people embrace them and enjoy them.

  Kam Williams

  Drama, Character, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. But my way into making movies has been through performing. My very first short film, I played a child and her own mother. So in some ways, to me, my great achievement so far is just that I've gotten all these other people to play the other parts. That's what makes it a real movie.

  Miranda July

  Mother, Children, Real

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.

  Caitlin Rose

  Girl, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

  Sia Furler

  Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

  Miyavi

  War, Reality, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my process, I am constantly moving between writing, performing, and producing art objects. These various practices inform one another. What I love about both art and writing are that they can be receptacles for everything.

  Jill Magid

  Art, Moving, Writing

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

  Phil Donahue

  Doctors, Earthquakes, Honor

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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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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• Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

  Florence Welch

  Moving, Thinking, High Heels

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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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