Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and… — Les Baxter Copy Share Image
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick,… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons:… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to… — Cher Copy Share Image
All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things… — Luis de la Fuente Copy Share Image
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove. — Edith Piaf Copy Share Image
I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre… — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer. — Hollie Cavanagh Copy Share Image
My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom. — Meryl Davis Copy Share Image
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs — Kyle Bass Copy Share Image
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies. — Dagmara Dominczyk Copy Share Image
Even the prettiest performers and even the most handsome performers, when they get that opportunity, they still need to step up to… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
