#perform

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

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#i #just #little #performing #play

There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. ↗

— Casey Abrams

#backbone #bore #during #edge #fresh

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#i #love #movies #performance #spectacle

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#confidence #consistent #deserve #first #first impression

I'm nervous whenever I perform. ↗

— Adele

#nervous #perform #whenever

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#grammys #how #i #i remember #looking

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. ↗

— Akhenaton

#alone #believe #boldness #child #due

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

Play always as if in the presence of a master. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#performing #piano #music