#performance

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

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#familiarity #flashy #great #great deal #how

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. ↗

— Peter Davison

#performance #poetic #poets #read #real

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#dead #intellectual #intellectual property #live #live performance

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. ↗

— John Eaton

#first #i #i think #live #live performances

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#being #communications #continued #data #driven

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#anything #conducive #creatively #different #different takes

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#good #honesty #performance #primary #qualities

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels