Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.
Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
Paul: Sex and alcohol. Fuels the desire kills the performance, according to the Bard.
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.
