#perform

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. ↗

— Aristotle

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I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#dancing #i #like #little #look

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical. ↗

— Sean Astin

#definitely #feeling #felt #going #i

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#been #coming #i #los #los angeles

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

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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