Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I… — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion]… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want.… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I find myself skeptical of music that forces you to have a certain experience, emotional reaction, or specific constructive arc of experience.… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the… — Chris Stein Copy Share Image
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time. — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting. — Elena Roger Copy Share Image
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. — Clive James Copy Share Image
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