#performers

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

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

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. ↗

— Les Baxter

#becomes #challenge #hit #imagination #ingenuity

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none. ↗

— Greg Garrison

#bar #been #dean #ended #ever

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#back #completely #early #female #gone

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me. ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#comedy #done #enough #everything #feel

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

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

#also #composers #disciples #enthusiasm #feeling

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

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#big #big deal #book #box #busy