Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

Hal David

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

Andrea Bocelli

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Brian McKnight

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

Connie Stevens

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

Gregory Maguire

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

Kendall Schmidt

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

Katherine Waterston

Have faith in the manifestation of your positive desires; God is always at work, and will never seize to perform wonders in our lives.

Edmond Mbiaka

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

Florence Welch

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

Geoffrey Beene

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

Chris Jericho

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Cyndi Lauper

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

Carre Otis

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Chuck Palahniuk

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Harold Rosenberg

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Henry Rollins

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

Jane Byrne

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Bunning

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Judith Butler

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

Daley Thompson

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.

Ellen J. Barrier