Performing Quotes

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

No matter what size I am I love performing no matter how big or little I am! I feel good.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

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

I was performing from the age of three.

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.

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.

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.