Performing Quotes · Page 14

I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

— Ravi Shankar

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

— George Chakiris

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

— Billy Joel

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

— Juicy J

I have a lot of experience with the lights on bright - a lot of people watching and performing on live television.

— Jake Hager

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

— Nick Laird

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

— James Dean

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

— Andy Hargreaves

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I'd been wanting to audition for the Raiderettes for a while. The irony is that I didn't have time when I was…

— Emily Compagno

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of…

— Yoshi Wada

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate…

— Steven Johnson

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing.…

— Norman Seeff

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When…

— Jon Landau

I love 'Breathe' with Taylor (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) all over the world in the past year…

— Colbie Caillat

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into…

— Guy Laliberte

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase…

— Thomas Bangalter

I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior…

— Jon Gordon

I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your…

— Eugene Levy

I'm a natural born show off. I love performing, and at school we had a really good music scene and an even…

— Al Murray

I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them…

— Bruno Mars

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no…

— Randy Alcorn

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you…

— Richard Ayoade

Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he…

— Plutarch

I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new…

— Sasha Velour

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

— Shannon Miller

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

— Toni Braxton

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

— Courtney Hadwin

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

— Mary Kay Ash

I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

— Elaine Stritch

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

— Michael McIntyre

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

In some ways my progress has been quick but also not, when you see how I've been performing.

— Erling Haaland

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

— Neil Diamond

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

— Dan Rather

It is my great pleasure performing in front of my fans, and I enjoy it a lot.

— Hyuna

“Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing.”

— D.C. Gonzalez

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my…

— Kendall Schmidt

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

— Chin-Ning Chu

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

— Adam Cole