#perform

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#being #capable #desires #intense #into

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance. ↗

— Chad Smith

#behind #exciting #guitars #hear #live

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#band #come #feels #hadn #happen

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

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#performer #songs #suffer

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#confused #itself #performing #songwriting #unto

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#both #good #lot #perform #takes

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#been #inner #me #performing #process