Challenges Quote by Igor Stravinsky

Music is about the performance.

— Vanessa Mae

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

— Lewis Gordon

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

— Tom Odell

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

— Anna Meredith

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

— Marina Abramovic

Performers are going to play. If you're performing good and you're playing good consistently, you're going to play.

— Patrick Chung

The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the…

— Charles Ives

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

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who…

— Franz Liszt

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