Performing Quotes

Posing is a performing art.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.