Performer Quotes
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other performer in the history of rock 'n' roll, a singer who can not be pinned down, dismissed or fitted into anyone's expectations. He is a conundrum.
van morrison— The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
Jerry Springer: What would you have been if you would have not been a performer? GG Allin: I could have possibly been a serial killer or a mass murderer.
gg allin— GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
lucille ball— Page 42 (Love, Lucy (1996))
Who's to say that every performer should be a good actor? Why can't you just be yourself?
ed harcourt— " " (2004)
For almost a century, Jascha Heifetz was the performer all others wished to emulate, a genius whose technique and musicianship earned him accolades as "the perfect violinist".
jascha heifetz— U.S. News & World Report Article date: December 21, 1987 Author:Horn, Miriam
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.
nusrat fateh ali khan— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ,1993, a winter performance at the Gateway Theater in Chicago,Interviewed by Andy Carvin,
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad — if you're indifferent, Endsville.
frank sinatra— As quoted in Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s (2002) by Michael Johns
I think she glows, she's an amazing performer and her work inspires me. There will be no other Madonna." (From the book "Madonna talking" by Mick St. Michael)
— Mariquita Robinson
This accessible production [of Don Giovanni - ed.] concentrates on the comic delights of the piece and rests heavily on the roguish charms of Vytautas Juozapaitis in the title role. Indeed, he's so delightfully decadent, and so charismatic a performer, that the righteous indignation of those he has harmed makes them seem priggish in comparison.
vytautas juozapaitis— Nigel Powlson, "Womaniser's charms are hard to resist". Derby Evening Telegraph (July 23, 2004)
Todd Snider writes great songs and also is a great performer. He totally connects with every audience. Hardest act to follow since Steve Goodman.
todd snider— John Prine, quoted at Oh Boy Records
I think he's a great guitarist, a great musician and an excellent keyboard player which most people don't know. But he knows what sets him apart from everybody is that he's a brilliant writer. Part of that is having a vision to put it across onstage as a performer, too.
Bruce Springsteen— Nils Lofgren
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.
john updike— Ch. 6 (Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989))
For verily (the true nature) of 'right action' should be known; also (that) of 'forbidden (or unlawful) action' and of 'inaction'; imponderable is the nature (path) of action. He who recognises inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men; he is a YOGI and a true performer of all actions.
— Krishna; Chapter 4, verses 17–18; Swami Chinmayananda commentary
The object of the piano is to substitute one performer for a whole orchestra.
— William Dean Howells, in Modern Italian Poets (1866), Volume 1, p. 373
