#performance

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

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It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#collaboration #create #different #interesting #joy

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. ↗

— Alan Bates

#emotional #instinctive #more #performance #usually

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. ↗

— Melvin Belli

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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

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It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#aspiring #athletes #because #better #day

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison. ↗

— Tom Fitzpatrick

#humor #music #performance #rolling-stones #music

Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being slandered? Do successful alternative diminish the value of traditional ones? *The argument that musicians must embrace conventional rituals is just as perilous as unilaterally rejecting them.* ↗

— David Cutler

#music #musicians #performance #performance-practice #traditions

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#performance #virtuoso #music

The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language. ↗

— William Lindsay Gresham

#carnival #carny #language #performance #religion