#perform

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. ↗

— Billy Joel

#causes #charitable #creation #give #humanitarian

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#directing #getting #good #just #movie

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. ↗

— Elton John

#craft #did #hard #hard work #learn

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties. ↗

— Elton John

#got #i #i do #income #live

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world. ↗

— Lara St. John

#age #certain #certain age #female #hit

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. ↗

— Lara St. John

#art #artists #because #choose #decades

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#best #bird #energy #game #gretzky

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#performed #perseverance #strength #works

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#counsel #despair #determination #diligence #few