Performances Quotes · Page 103

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a…

— Jorma Kaukonen

Personal matters aren't really any of my business. I don't care who is sleeping with whom for example unless it is somehow…

— Terry Mosher

Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness…

— Steve Martin

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,…

— Noel Coward

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and…

— Patrick Süskind

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be…

— Loudon Wainwright III

...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up,…

— Hermann Hesse

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

— John Wooden

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

— Josephine Hart

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact…

— Simon Callow

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That…

— Taylor Swift

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield…

— Albert Bandura

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

— Albert Bandura

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you…

— Jodi Picoult

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

— Richard Koch

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

— Michael Keaton

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be…

— Christina Aguilera

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit…

— Algernon Sidney

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

— Bob Hope

One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and…

— Le1f

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have…

— Michael Steinhardt

Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land,…

— Craig Ferguson

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

— David Korten