Performance Quotes

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

They got a great performance from me. I was happy.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.