#perform

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#attitudes #change #deep #enough #excellence

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#get #i #immerse #just #like

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#capture #children #culture #each #getting

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#hear #heard #learn #learned #peanuts

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#down #focus #half #hard #i

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#change #characters #feel #kind #people

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#always #break #care #could #create