Performance Quotes

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

Computers double their performance every month.

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

When you think a positive thought, you become positive.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

It is action that creates motivation.

Act like a champion, and then become one.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

Teaching is performance art.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

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.

I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.