#performance

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#hammond #i #john #like #often

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#because #fantasy #fiction #get #horror

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

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. ↗

— Allan Carr

#audience #crucial #first #go #lose

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#bad performance #be brave #brave #business #give

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#cerebral #creative #creative artist #emotional #i

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. ↗

— Tom Flores

#paramount #performance #reaching #total #ultimate

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal. ↗

— Anna Friel

#days #four #i #once #onstage