Performers Quotes · Page 15

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's…

— Margaret Cho

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

— Sting

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and…

— George Carlin

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

— Sri Aurobindo

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or…

— Sandra Bernhard

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

— R. Kelly

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

— Samantha Morton

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest…

— Damian McGinty

I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter…

— Craig Robinson

Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry.…

— Cub Koda

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music…

— Zeena Parkins

Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend…

— George Schlatter

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer…

— Bette Midler

[Gord] Downie has become more animated than the early days, but he's still the same charismatic performer. And as a whole, that…

— Sarah Harmer

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills…

— A. R. Rahman

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a…

— Paula Abdul

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

— Sandra Cisneros

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

— Sarah Silverman

I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.

— Clemence Poesy

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy,…

— Scott Aukerman

Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to…

— David Rees

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

— Bruce Forsyth

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and…

— Kate Brown

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa.…

— Haley Reinhart

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

— Tom Conti

I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious…

— Minnie Pearl

I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a…

— Andy Grammer

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in…

— Robert Stack

I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are…

— Minnie Pearl

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and…

— Keegan-Michael Key

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

— James Agate

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work…

— Kiki Dee

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I…

— Emanuel Ax

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

— Brian Setzer

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not…

— Victoria Beckham

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association,…

— Michael Richards

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street…

— Denis Lavant

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

— Miranda Lambert