Performer Quotes - page 11

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. (Ellie Goulding)
I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy. View quote
Ellie Goulding
If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that! View quote
Evander Holyfield
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character. View quote
Michael Richards
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors! View quote
Terry Eagleton
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. View quote
Henry Rollins
I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off. View quote
Paula Poundstone
I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part. View quote
Maria Bamford
Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know. View quote
Jarvis Cocker
It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years. View quote
Nikki Sixx
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer. (Bill Walton)
Jerry Springer: What would you have been if you would have not been a performer? View quote
GG Allin
I wasn't really a performer by temperament. View quote
Tom Lehrer
I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer. View quote
Marina Abramovic
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In oral culture, there is no separation between the poet and the poem. The author is a performer who vocalizes the words. Creation and performance are inseparably linked. Without writing, a ‘text' has no existence outside the auditory performance" (10). View quote
Dana Gioia
I'm not like a performer type. View quote
Dave Attell
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants. View quote
Norah Jones
For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer. View quote
Norah Jones
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll. (Patti Smith)
I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. View quote
Patti Smith
Marcia: Lovely. Yeah, go the rock chick. Yeah, um, you've been so great through this competition. Um, we've said no, you've come back blah blah blah blah. (sic). You know, um, its great to see you grow Hayley. Uh huh, and step out of that place that's comfortable because that's what being a performer is. Congratulations and a great choice of song. View quote
Hayley Jensen
Spoken Word poetry is an art form that fits me well because it enables me to bring all the layers of who I am into one space - A reader, writer, and performer... View quote
Raymond Antrobus
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame. View quote
Cate Blanchett