#performer

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants. ↗

— Norah Jones

#clubs #i #jazz #mickey #mickey mouse

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#black #business #climate #entertainment #entertainment business

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#all things #because #director #indeed #interesting

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#lot #performer #spent #temperamental #time

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#dying #emerging #national #new #off

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#featured #graduated #i #live #night

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures. ↗

— Robert Stack

#great #i #knew #motion #motion pictures

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#performer #songs #suffer

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#chance #colleagues #course #get #important

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey. ↗

— John Eaton

#context #convey #departure #express #expressive