#performer

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. ↗

— Alice Cooper

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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do. ↗

— Debbie Harry

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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#circuit #concerts #european #house #least

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. ↗

— Leo Kottke

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It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes. ↗

— Leo Kottke

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