#perform

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#celebrities #compelling #everyday #everyday life #harking

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#doing #get #had #i #interested

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#back #discovered #early #experience #feed

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. ↗

— Karen Kain

#better #challenged #dancers #like #nothing

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#any #ashamed #asked #best #david

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#begin #certain #change #depth #later

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#chance #like #movies #performances #quality

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #any #arena #bad #been