Performance Quotes

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Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can… — Martina Navratilova
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for… — John Cage
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford
The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with… — Igor Stravinsky
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that… — John Perry Barlow
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being… — Ken Burns
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always… — John Lahr
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience. — Shelley Berman
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance. — Shelley Berman
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live… — William Irwin Thompson
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help… — Aaron Eckhart
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as… — Arundhati Roy
If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his… — Maureen Howard
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the… — Jack Dee
Music is about the performance. — Vanessa Mae
My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was… — Katie Leclerc
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their… — Mary McDonnell
We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust,… — Pranab Mukherjee
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. — Roger Mudd
I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there… — Indra Nooyi

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