Performance Quotes - page 2

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. (Elbert Hubbard)
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. View quote
Lawrence Wright
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat? View quote
Al Yankovic
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. View quote
Bill Toomey
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. View quote
Branford Marsalis
Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level. View quote
Barry Bonds
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. (Ethel Waters)
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. View quote
Frank Shorter
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it. View quote
George Thorogood
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. View quote
Gavin Bryars
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. View quote
Gavin Newsom
Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance. View quote
Kevin B. Rollins
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic? View quote
Kurt Masur
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed. View quote
Kelly Jones
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. View quote
Lukas Foss
Music is a performance and needs the audience. (Michael Tippett)
Drugs won't enhance your performance. View quote
Morgan Brittany
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. View quote
Russ Carnahan
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. View quote
Vernon Jordan
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio