#performance

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#always #careful #chocolates #had #make

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#horses #increases #large #only #performance

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful. ↗

— Miranda Leek

#beautiful #broken #flow #force #good

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #danger #i #i think #made

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#dark #dark side #excellence #flash #moon

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#apart #could #dog #fall #i

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors. ↗

— Rob Paulsen

#best #competent #creative #fearless #incredibly

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#did #first #hawk #i #know

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#all things #because #big #companies #company

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#demons #does #done #ever #give