#performer

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. ↗

— James Daly

#artists #conversations #down #got #greatest

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. ↗

— Mac Davis

#around #close #elvis #elvis presley #even

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#great #i #i am #i think #musical

I wasn't really a performer by temperament. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#performer #really #temperament

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#denial #denies #developed #form #highly

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#believed #change #character #could #earth

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#compete #dies #does #her #junior

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#basically #become #company #demands #enormous

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers. ↗

— Walter Piston

#composed #i #music #must #performers