The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
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.
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'
