It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.
There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.
Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.
And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yours...
