#performance

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. ↗

— Ice Cube

#dancers #given #interesting #me #most

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#better #comedian #comedians #everything #feel

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#aware #consciously #dancers #enough #go

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#dialogue #get #heard #i #interesting

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. ↗

— Mel Torme

#am #dead #eight #folks #get

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age. ↗

— Fritz Weaver

#because #doing #i #i can #lifetime

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance. ↗

— Saul Williams

#excited #growing #i #interest #live

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#amazing #film #got #i #i am

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. ↗

— Will Wright

#come #console #conveniently #games #generation