#performance

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

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#artist #away #bizarre #break #get

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

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#everything #forget #performance #reality #your

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#best #deeply #event #himself #his

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. ↗

— Jay London

#enhancing #i #may #performance

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#considered #his #jackie #performance #resurrection

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#damned #i #me #nobody #performance

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