#perform

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#any #attitude #back #came #different

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#before #cardinal #did #enter #get

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

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#designed #exercises #function #i #i do

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#being #birth #constantly #disloyal #enjoying

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together. ↗

— Peter Asher

#gordon #i #i am #longer #music

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#performance #promise #whole #world #worth

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#him #injury #performed #revenge #unlike

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#close #experiencing #feel #hall #i