Performing Quotes

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.