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 always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain… — Bette Midler 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
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith 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
True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma 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
Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think. — Theodore Annemann Copy Share Image
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry.… — Cub Koda Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique,… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film,… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
