Performers Quotes

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

Conductors are performers.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.