Performers Quotes

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

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

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

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

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

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.