quotes about Performing
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
-- Adam Lambert -
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
-- Alan Cumming -
A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
-- Alexei Sayle -
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I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
-- Ansel Elgort -
An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!
-- Ashley Tisdale -
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
-- B. B. King -
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Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
-- Bell Hooks -
Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
-- Bijou Phillips -
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
-- Bill Gaede -
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
-- Cathy Rigby -
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
-- Charley Pride -
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I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.
-- Cheryl Wheeler -
I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
-- Chris LeDoux -
There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.
-- Christina Milian -
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...
-- Claude Monet -
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
-- Dan Rather -
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I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.
-- Dave Lombardo -
If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.
-- Dion DiMucci -
I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
-- Dionne Warwick -
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Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.
-- Eddie MurphySource : "Exclusive: Eddie Murphy on His Return to Music and the Stage". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. September 9, 2013.
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The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
-- Eric WhitacreSource : Twitter post from May 20, 2016
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When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
-- Erykah Badu -
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
-- Fiona Shaw -
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.
-- Fred Wilson -
Performing is one of the best feelings I know!
-- Gloria Estefan -
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
-- Grimes -
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This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.
-- Guy Clark -
I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
-- Gwen Stefani -
I love performing in Las Vegas.
-- Holly MadisonSource : "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.
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I love acting. I love performing.
-- Isaiah MustafaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
-- Jack WildSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
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Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
-- Jason Mraz -
A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.
-- Jennifer Dunning -
I was performing from the age of three.
-- Jennifer EllisonSource : "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.
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Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
-- Joe Nichols -
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If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.
-- Joe Sakic -
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
-- John Cassavetes -
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
-- John Denver -
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
-- Joseph Murray -
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The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
-- Joshua BellSource : FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 15, 2015
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I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.
-- Juicy J -
Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
-- Karen Kain -
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
-- Kay Boyle -
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
-- Kim Gordon -
Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.
-- Kim Wilde -
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!
-- Laura Marano -
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If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
-- Lawrence Welk -
I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.
-- Leighton Meester -
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
-- Lemon AndersenSource : "LatinoBuzz: An Interview with Lemon Andersen". Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. October 3, 2017.
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On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
-- Luciano Pavarotti -
Literally since I could walk... I was performing.
-- Lyndsy FonsecaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-- M. Ward -
There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
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It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.
-- Martina McBride -
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
-- Melanie Fiona -
I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.
-- Michael Jackson -
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
-- Michael Jackson -
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There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.
-- Michael Jackson -
To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.
-- Michael Owen -
All I have to concentrate on is my performing.
-- Mickey Gilley -
Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.
-- Minnie Pearl -
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My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
-- Moby -
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
-- Neil Diamond -
I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.
-- Nick Offerman -
I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing
-- Nora Dunn -
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I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
-- Patti LaBelle -
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
-- Patti LaBelle -
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
-- Renee FlemingSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss -
I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
-- Rick NielsenSource : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.
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Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.
-- Rita WilsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
-- Robert Crippen -
Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
-- Robert Smith -
The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.
-- Seth Klarman -
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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?
-- Seth Lloyd -
I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing
-- Shannon Miller -
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
-- Shannon Miller -
I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.
-- Sherilyn FennSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.
-- Shreya Ghoshal -
I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
-- Tom Wopat -
I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.
-- Tommy Emmanuel -
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do
-- Toni BraxtonSource : FaceBook post by Toni Braxton from Oct 25, 2016
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