3.
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
Patti LaBelle
4.
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do
Toni Braxton
5.
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.
Gwen Stefani
6.
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?
Seth Lloyd
7.
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
Joshua Bell
8.
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
Claude Monet
9.
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
James Brown
10.
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.
Madonna Ciccone
11.
(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.
John Cassavetes
12.
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.
Eddie Murphy
13.
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond
14.
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.
Michael Jackson
15.
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Michael Jackson
16.
Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
Jason Mraz
17.
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
George Edward Moore
18.
Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
Richard Strauss
19.
This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.
Guy Clark
20.
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.
Agnes de Mille
21.
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
Bobby McFerrin
22.
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.
Michael Owen
23.
I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.
Shreya Ghoshal
24.
If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.
Dion DiMucci
25.
I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.
Tommy Emmanuel
26.
Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
Dave Chappelle
27.
I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.
Josephine Baker
28.
Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.
Bobby McFerrin
29.
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
Bell Hooks
30.
I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.
David Bowie
31.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
Renee Fleming
32.
I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
Chris LeDoux
33.
The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.
Adam Cole
34.
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
John Denver
35.
Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
Robert Smith
36.
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.
Paul McCartney
37.
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.
Tom Jones
38.
Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.
Kim Wilde
39.
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.
Kenneth Tynan
40.
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.
Alexei Sayle
42.
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.
Tom Wopat
43.
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
Joseph Murray
44.
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.
Chris O'Dowd
45.
I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.
Dave Lombardo
46.
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.
Jim Carrey
47.
It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.
John Hiatt
48.
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Charley Pride
49.
I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
Yelawolf
50.
If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.
Joe Sakic