Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.
I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it's weird to be in the same type setup as...
He that performs his own errand, saves his messanger's hire.
Don't confuse activity with action.
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
[Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
