Performers Quotes · Page 6

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

— Leona Lewis

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

— Lola Kirke

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

— Olivier Messiaen

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

— Tom Waits

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

— Dustin Hoffman

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

— Nat Hentoff

She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

— Bryce Wilson

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

— Clemence Poesy

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

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

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

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as…

— Jennifer Damiano

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers…

— Lara St. John

The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined…

— Henry Rollins

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James…

— Jennifer Lopez

I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family…

— John Travolta

Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of…

— Monica Ali

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any…

— Marilyn Manson

One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you…

— Christopher Owens

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great…

— Cody Johnson

It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling.…

— Liza Minnelli

Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed…

— Dan John

When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on…

— David Finckel

I find myself skeptical of music that forces you to have a certain experience, emotional reaction, or specific constructive arc of experience.…

— Vijay Iyer

A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To…

— Peter Lynch

Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

— Renee Montagne

Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

— Robin Sharma

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

— Adrian Grenier

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

— Patti Smith

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

— Christopher Walken