#stage

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#died #essence #ever #got #hendrix

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#being #bikini #coup #ended #held

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#film #greatest #me #moments #myself

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window. ↗

— Rita Ora

#been #beforehand #fine #get #goes

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#born #composer #difference #equipment #hears

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#between #civilization #empires #new #new age

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#enjoy #entertainer #get #going #i

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#consideration #development #faced #field #first

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#becoming #being #comedians #comedy #doing