Ability Quote by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Music is about the performance.

— Vanessa Mae

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

— Marina Abramovic

“With respect to excellence of style and composition, it may perhaps be said that to practised ears the most pleasing music is such as…

— Charles Burney

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

— Frank Zappa

The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types…

— Michael Hersch

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance…

— Helene Grimaud

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

— Lawrence Welk

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the…

— Howard Snell

“The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time.”

— Michael Griffin

The performance of Carnatic music is multi-dimensional and layered. A performance is at once an artiste's cathartic process of personal exploration and an open…

— Sid Sriram

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

— Amanda Palmer