#performers

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#close #experiencing #feel #hall #i

Conductors are performers. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#performers

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater. ↗

— John Hurt

#competitive #fewer #get #greater #i

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose. ↗

— Jane Campion

#environment #fail #frightened #home #humiliation

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#circuit #concerts #european #house #least

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#bobby #bobby darin #cooke #darin #great

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#earnings #family #family members #half #members

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#agency #biggest #either #feet #five

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#i #i think #know #lot #onstage

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. ↗

— James Daly

#artists #conversations #down #got #greatest