#perform

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

— John Denver

#experience #i #joy #living #performing

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#hammond #i #john #like #often

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#ambition #bad #character #depends #direct

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#better #defective #does #duty #follow

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#art form #back #broadway #changed #comedies

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#because #fantasy #fiction #get #horror

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl. ↗

— Allan Carr

#arts #college #doing #gave #good

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. ↗

— Allan Carr

#audience #crucial #first #go #lose

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most