#performance

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance. ↗

— Keith Richards

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I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#gone #i #live #live performances #months

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#conception #concerts #dominant #hearing #itself

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#appear #curtain #giving #goes #happy

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes. ↗

— Jack Dee

#between #comedian #gets #great #his

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

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 think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great. ↗

— Kimbra

#amongst #both #breaking #company #excited

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. ↗

— Don King

#longevity #performance #quality #you