Performances Quotes
1471 Performances quotes by 1168 unique authors
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've…
— Jessie J
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By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate…
— Janet Jackson
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself…
— Joan Jett
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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no…
— Penn Jillette
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and…
— Billy Joel
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got…
— Elton John
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
— Samuel Johnson
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Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
— Mindy Kaling
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If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three…
— Ben Kingsley
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I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great…
— Beyonce Knowles
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I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
— Annie Ilonzeh
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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
— Adam Lambert
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It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in…
— Jon Landau
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James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his…
— Jon Landau
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The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day…
— Avril Lavigne
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every…
— Denis Leary
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It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more…
— Geddy Lee
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
— Damian Lewis
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