Performed Quotes

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.