#performance

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#audience #because #bulk #entertainment #give

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#part #performance #suffer

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#gets #highlight #other #parts #performance

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#apply #athletic #based #biomechanics #changes

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. ↗

— Mel Torme

#began #dad #did #fans #film

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? ↗

— William Gibson

#performance-art #virtual-reality #art

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#animation #became #everybody #happen #invented

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. ↗

— Manfred Mann

#bad performance #being #even #get #good

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#expect #expectations #level #lower #make

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#because #been #big #big fan #difficult