#performers

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#allowed #applause #been #between #culprit

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think

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

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#been #bring #even #fact #few

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages. ↗

— Frank Black

#believe #between #called #connects #differences

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. ↗

— Jamie Farr

#beginning #canadians #great #hockey #hockey players

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

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #bring #different #live #makes