Performances Quotes

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left.

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 hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.