With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
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.
I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
[after failing to sexually perform with Bonnie] Clyde Barrow: 'Least I ain't a liar.
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.
I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.
