Performers Quotes · Page 7

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

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

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

— Mick Ronson

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

— Walter Piston

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

— Bryce Wilson

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

— Debbie Harry

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle-…

— Kathryn Minshew

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to…

— Jack McBrayer

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

— Ellie Goulding

I love to sing, dance, and act so I guess I am one! Although I definitely think that I have tons to…

— Megan Lee

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

— Eric Whitacre

I'm most excited to see how I've grown as a performer. After Dancing With the Stars I really was able to evolve…

— Nick Carter

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

— Bebe Neuwirth

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

— Nikki Sixx

When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did…

— Elizabeth Streb

When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what…

— Philip Kotler

The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do,…

— James C. Collins

I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you…

— Erin Davie

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a…

— Lea Salonga

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what…

— Mel Torme

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work,…

— Peter Drucker

I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got…

— Coolio

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The…

— Derek Bailey

Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first…

— Mike Keneally

People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there…

— Jimmy Smits

I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were…

— Trevor Noah

It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try…

— June Diane Raphael

As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for…

— Chick Corea

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual,…

— Eve Ensler

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are…

— Ernest Gold

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

— Adrian Grenier

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

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

I firmly believe the industry does not let down performers.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

— Ciara

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

— Patti LaBelle