Performer Quotes

313 quotes by 275 authors

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect… — Derek Bailey
... it took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you… — Rory Block
Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.' — Jay Sankey
I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer. — Mick Ronson
I wasn't really a performer by temperament, — Tom Lehrer
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one… — Erving Goffman
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously. — Charley Pride
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer… — Boz Scaggs
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer. — Mark V. Hurd
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I… — Abbey Lincoln
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part… — Denis Waitley
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. — Andy Goldsworthy
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing. — Elizabeth Bibesco
The mind of the performer is a very strange thing. — James Galway
I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to… — Debbie Gibson
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but… — John Eliot
Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you… — Unknown Author
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows… — Marc Maron
You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I… — Evel Knievel
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer. — Ricky Jay

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