Stage Quotes - Page 22

• I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Blow, People, Stopping

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Thinking, Way, Persona

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy and I have finally gotten back to the point of being brothers and clicked back into the place where we really enjoy feeding off each other onstage like we did when we started out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Brother, Attitude, Self

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.

  Jimmy Page

  Girl, Clothes, Ice

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• Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

  Tim Cook

  Smartphones, Revolution, Stills

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• Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

  Mario Cantone

  Barbie

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• I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
  (i) this is worthless nonsense;
  (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
  (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
  (iv) I always said so.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Acceptance, Views, Interesting

  Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.

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• Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.

  Mick Napier

  Doors, Sneak In, Judging

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• What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself. But that's rarely the case. The elements of a subject that speak to us are often scattered and can't be captured in one photo; we don't have the right to force them together, and to stage them would be cheating...which brings us to the need for photojournalism.

  Henri

  Cheating, Unique, Together

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• Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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• What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

  Florence Welch

  People, Moments, Performances

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• Stage time, stage time, stage time.

  Darren LaCroix

  "Chelsea Peretti started her stand-up career by telling fart jokes" by Ariana Bacle, www.ew.com. December 18, 2014.

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• There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Men, Bullets

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

  Earl Browder

  Organization, Political, Development

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• The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I’m on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.

  Minzy

  Dream, Crazy, Fall

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• I definitely get stage fright.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Stage Fright, Fright

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• I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

  Julio Iglesias

  Football, Real, Play

  "Julio Iglesias On His Champion Son Enrique, What Dolly Parton Taught Him, And The Enduring Passion". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 9, 2012.

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• No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Shy, Kind, Gentle

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• Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Horse, Real, Riding

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

  Grace Slick

  Purpose, Prancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Hair, Kind, Stakes

  "Rickie Lee Jones: 'I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

  Li Keqiang

  Country, Social Unrest, Growth

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