Best Performers Quotations
423 Performers quotes by 348 unique authors
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... 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
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My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot…
— Lenny Breau
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Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'
— Jay Sankey
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I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
— Mick Ronson
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
— Tom Lehrer
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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
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that…
— Edward R. Murrow
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech,…
— Frank Zappa
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Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
— Charley Pride
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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
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The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.
— Mark V. Hurd
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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
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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
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Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the…
— Bill Walsh
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I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
— Unknown Author
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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
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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
— John Monks
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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
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The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.
— James Galway
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I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to…
— Emanuel Ax
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Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I…
— Tom Glazer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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